From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 21 15:51:47 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA10828 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 15:51:47 -0800 Received: from server.iadfw.net (server.iadfw.net [204.178.72.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA10822 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 15:51:45 -0800 From: jbryant@server.iadfw.net Received: (from jbryant@localhost) by server.iadfw.net (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA27203; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 17:51:34 -0600 Message-Id: <199503212351.RAA27203@server.iadfw.net> Subject: Re: Problem with pop3 To: didier@aida.remcomp.fr (Didier Derny) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 17:51:33 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Didier Derny" at Mar 21, 95 10:43:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1732 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply: > Subject: Problem with pop3 > Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 22:43:14 +0100 > From: Didier Derny > > > I've just taken the source code of pop3d and found some problems > > 1/ a inline variable is declared. > 2/ it takes the mail from /usr/spool/mail > 3/ a lseek fail somewhere giving a huge file (not allocated) > > I think I can get rid of these problems but if > a clean source code exist somewhere I would be happy > to find it. I highly recommend using the qualcomm qpopper package. It is based upon the berkeley popper, and offers many useful enhancements. And it works. Also, I would think that qualcomm has incentive to provide support for qpopper, they are the ones who do Eudora, a very popular pop client for Windoze... Try looking for qpopper2.1.3 or qpopper2.1.4... Along this same thread, the berkeley popper [1.9.3?] wreaks havoc under 950210-SNAP. It seems to copy each message once the first time a user grabs his mail, then copies each message 4 times the next time, and so forth, after 4 attempts in testing, a 3-4 meg mailbox grew to 140megs, I didn't test the progression further, I only have a gig set aside for /var... also I didn't have the time to check the berkeley sources for the incompatability between our previous BSDI server and the FreeBSD we run now, when you have as many users as us breathing down yer neck in a complete OS switchover... Jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@server.iadfw.net, System administrator, Internet America