From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 31 05:00:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0199416A40F for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:00:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8800543D49 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:00:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4362C8A0042 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:00:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29675-50 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:00:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from webmail.sd73.bc.ca (unknown [10.10.10.17]) by smtp.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD25B8A002C for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:00:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from 24.71.118.34 (SquirrelMail authenticated user fcash) by webmail.sd73.bc.ca with HTTP; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:00:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <60338.24.71.118.34.1162270816.squirrel@webmail.sd73.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20061030165949.021173a0@nano.net> References: <6.2.0.14.2.20061030165949.021173a0@nano.net> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:00:16 -0800 (PST) From: "Freddie Cash" To: hackers@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at sd73.bc.ca Cc: Subject: Re: Email recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:00:24 -0000 On Mon, October 30, 2006 4:51 pm, tech@nano.net wrote: > I get a LOT of corrupt mailboxes. Just 187 mailboxes and daily > problems. It's always the same error in the log files: "-ERR Unable to > process From lines (envelopes), change recognition modes." > > I've done some research and don't know any more about where the > problem lives than I did before. I know that some From: lines are > missing the colon, but I don't know why. Can anyone recommend a more > forgiving popper or MTA? I'm running QPOP 2.53 and Sendmail 8.13.6. If this is your own server, I'd recommend switching to Postfix and using Maildir for message storage. The problem with mbox format message stores is that only 1 process can be writing to the file, which stores *all* messages for a folder. If you are receiving a new message while deleting an existing one, all kinds of nasty things can happen. If you need POP3 (I'd recommend going with IMAP instead) then look at Courier, Dovecot, or Cyrus. They provide nice, fast, stable, Maildir-support with POP3 and IMAP daemons that access the same folders. ---- Freddie Cash fcash@ocis.net