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Subject: ports/1866: popclient flushes remote mailbox even with local failure
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>Number:         1866
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       popclient flushes remote mailbox even with local failure
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 22 15:00:01 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Satoshi Asami
>Organization:
The FreeBSD Project
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
>Environment:

	popclient-3.0b6 from ports

>Description:

	Popclient doesn't check exit status of /usr/libexec/mail.local
	(or mail.local is returning bogus exit status) so when the local
	mailbox is not writable, the remote mails still get flushed, 
	resulting in loss of messages.

>How-To-Repeat:

	NFS mount /var/mail without root privs
	popclient <popserver>
	(see your mail disappear into neitherland)

>Fix:
	
	Fix popclient, I guess. :)

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: