From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Oct 23 02:59:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA09227 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 02:59:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA09210 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 02:59:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA08318 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:59:02 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id LAA06994 for freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 11:58:15 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.0/keltia-uucp-2.9) id LAA18542; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 11:42:41 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199610230942.LAA18542@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 11:42:41 +0200 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/1866: popclient flushes remote mailbox even with local failure References: <199610230230.TAA23847@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.48.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#2584 In-Reply-To: <199610230230.TAA23847@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Gary Palmer on Oct 22, 1996 19:30:03 -0700 Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Gary Palmer: > I think there is another bug with popclient and handling largish > (well, more than 10 or so messages) mailboxes. It came back with `bad > file descriptor' after 7 or so messages in recent testing locally > (against the qpopper in ports). I haven't had time to get into it with > gdb and find the problem yet. Please have a look at fetchmail, this is the successor of popclient that Eric Raymond has taken over. I've seen a PR for a new port for it. It is possible that this bug is fixed in fetchmail. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #25: Tue Oct 15 21:13:57 MET DST 1996