From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Sep 26 19:01:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA21834 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 19:01:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com (poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com [209.6.79.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA21829 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 19:00:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@hamsterville.ultranet.com) Received: from energizer (dyn2.hamsterville.ultranet.com [209.6.79.23]) by poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id WAA14324; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 22:00:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980926215912.00985d00@poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com> X-Sender: ben@poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 21:59:12 -0400 To: Alan Batie , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Ben Goodwin Subject: Re: Strange popper behavior In-Reply-To: <19980926100728.26872@rdrop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org How did you copy the box? Often what happens is the spool gets corrupted with NULL's at the top, which can't be seen with some tools. You can also compile qpopper with -DDEBUG and set syslog to log the facility at DEBUG to see what's going on. -= Ben At 10:07 AM 9/26/98 -0700, Alan Batie wrote: >I've got a weird situation where some of my users are getting the popper >error: > > -ERR Unable to process From lines (envelopes), change recognition modes. > >On the surface, this just looks like a From line corruption problem, but >if I copy the mailbox to a test account and access it as that user, it >works fine. I ran ktrace on popper while one of the users having the >problem accessed his mailbox, and the block of data read just before the >error was logged looks fine --- no leading "From "'s in the text, the >date formats on the From lines are normal, etc. I don't suppose anyone >has seen the before and has the magic bullet? > >-- >Alan Batie ______ www.rdrop.com/users/batie Me >batie@agora.rdrop.com \ / www.qrd.org The Triangle >PGPFP DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A \ / www.pgpi.com The Weird Numbers >27 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 \/ www.anti-spam.net NO SPAM! > >Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\Strange popper behavior" > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message