From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Dec 30 22:08:33 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA17166 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 22:08:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA17161 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 22:08:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA13695; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 22:07:57 -0800 (PST) To: "roslan" cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 31 Dec 1996 10:25:11 +0800." <199612311030.KAA10085@ac1.acecom.com.my> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 22:07:57 -0800 Message-ID: <13691.852012477@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > We encounter problem such as all the previous mail keep on coming-in in > only one of the user mailbox. We have 'popper' running on our FreeBSD and > it is configured as our DNS server and also as e-mail server. The mail is > very fast accumulating in the mailbox. We afraid it will bring-down the > server. We use Pegasus as our POP client. > > Is there any solution for this? This is your user's fault. He has the "keep email on server" (or some such wording) option checked in his Pegasus configuration. Popper is only behaving as instructed, and I suppose another hack you guys could do would be to make popper always truncate the mailbox. Jordan