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cherylnm
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October 21, 2009
Question

cfpop uid format - has commas in it

  • October 21, 2009
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I am unable to reference/use the uid values in my cfpop query becasue they all have commas in them.  The documentation says that uid is "UID or a comma-separated list of UIDs to get or delete. Invalid UIDs are ignored."  But since there is a comma in the uid, none of them are showing as valid.

Here is a short example list of the uid values I am seeing:

1242171504.5738.mail16,S=7799

1256158656.31258.mail41,S=4187

1256160932.4879.mail4,S=5539

Perhaps only part of these strings is really the uid?

Thanks for any help/suggestions.  I searched Google and the forums but could not find a solutioin.  The last comment in the CF 8 documentation asks the same quesiton - http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Tags_p-q_08.html but it is unanswered.


Thank you,

Cheryl

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    wandsoft
    New Participant
    March 7, 2012

    After a fair bit of research, I think Paul Vernon has the answer: http://popcfc.riaforge.org/

    We had been using his cfx_pop3, but we wanted to move to a straight forward solution.

    Using Paul's pop.cfc solved the issue, and allows the retrieval by uid.

    Best regards

    Claude

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    Murrah
    Inspiring
    October 24, 2013

    Yes, popcfc is the solution.

    See http://murrayhopkins.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/cfpop-deleting-an-email-when-there-is-a-comma-in-the-uid/ for more on how to use it.

    @wandsoft: Thanks for pointing this out.

    Cheers,

    Murray

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    Adam Cameron.
    Inspiring
    October 22, 2009

    Maybe just try a bit of experimentation.  I suspect the first numeric sequence is the actual UID (this is based on reading some RFCs which suggest the UID is a 32-bit integer value).

    Why don't you just try an operation using that pat of what's being returned as the UID and see what happens? If you're using a test mail box, it's a zero-risk experiment.

    --

    Adam

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    cherylnmAuthor
    Known Participant
    October 22, 2009

    Thanks for the suggestions Adam, but none of the substrings work either.  I even tried just hardcoding one of the IDs and also parts of it and nothing gets returned, which according to the CF8 docs means it is not a valid uid (invalud uids get ignored).

    Using this ID:  1256160932.4879.mail4,S=5539
    In addition to the full uid valud used in the code below, I also tried to enter the following values in the cfpop code, and nothing works:(

    1256160932

    1256160932.4879

    1256160932.4879.mail4

    S=5539

    5539

    <cfpop
        server="mail.mydomain.com"
        action="getHeaderOnly"
        name="emailmessages"
        password="mypw"
        username="myun"
        uid="1256160932.4879.mail4,S=5539">

    <cfdump var="#emailmessages#">

    If I eliminate the uid attribute in the code above, then all three messages on the server get returned, including the one showing a uid of 1256160932.4879.mail4,S=5539.

    Any other suggestions?  Could this somehow be related to the mail host or the email account settings (Network Solutions)?

    Thanks.

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    cherylnmAuthor
    Known Participant
    October 22, 2009

    Oh - I also forgot to mention that it is a test mailbox at this point.

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