Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:16:34 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: "'Huff'" <dwhuff1@home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qpopper Message-ID: <3A686862.333CD3E4@mail.iowna.com> References: <003a01c081db$79259160$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > qpopper doesen't track anything. As you guessed in another posting, all of > the monkey business has to be done by the client. <Snipped out excellent explanation of UIDLs in POP3> > Now, before you start punching holes in this let me say that it's easy to > get the client's internal database out of wack from the messages that are > actually on the server - that is why it's important to regularly delete > messages from the server, and to not do funny things like checking the same > mailbox simultaneously from different clients, and most importantly, not > letting > the modem crap out right when the client is in the middle of a POP session. > But, if you have good networking links, this sort of thing works well enough > for casual sharing use. Well, I'm not going to bother to punch holes in anything. The upshot here is that I was right about the client having to keep track of which message to download and not. > Now, all of this is getting far away from the problem the initial user is > having. His problem (and I mailed him the answer a while ago) is that > qpopper is unable to modify the user's mailbox. He may have a permissions > problem on the directory, or qpopper may not be executing a change userID > command properly, or something like that. As a result, he sends a delete > command, the client assumes it's deleted, the server is unable to delete it, > thus the message is still present. The upshot here is that you're probably right about permissions. One way or the other, thanks for the clarification. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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