UNIQUE ID LISTING


Meaning of UNIQUE ID LISTING in English

< messaging > (UIDL) A system used by POP3 electronic mail servers to uniquely identify a mail message. Normally, a message is identified by its position in the list of messages but this will change when an earlier message is deleted. The UIDL is a fixed string of characters which is unique to the message. The UIDL of a message never changes and will never be reused, even when the message has been deleted from the user's mailbox .

RFC 1725 .

(1997-04-16)

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