From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 8 17:08:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA18408 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 17:08:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA18402 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 17:08:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id UAA24354; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 20:08:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id UAA23609; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 20:08:35 -0400 (EDT) To: chas cc: Eddie Fry , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: popper err In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 Jul 1997 06:42:54 +0800." <3.0.32.19970709063308.0097e850@mail.tm.net.my> Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 20:08:35 -0400 Message-ID: <23607.868406915@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk chas wrote in message ID <3.0.32.19970709063308.0097e850@mail.tm.net.my>: > It seems to be one of those pretty harmless console messages (another > common one being "ERR POP EOF received"). I've got accustomed to it > and figure it's another of those email clients using non-standard > protocols. I tracked that one down once. I *think* from memory some client sees there are no messages and just hangs up rather than exiting properly. What I find a LOT more annoying is that it seems Netscape 2/3 (4 too I think) can't pick up largish (>>100k or so) MIME style messages from our server ... the connection just times out eventually (I think ... never used it myself :) ), quite often frustrating the user with pop lock problems. The weird thing is it either only happens on dialup or it doesn't affect me when I try from my BSD box... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info