Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:48:10 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@freebsd.org To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/1866: popclient flushes remote mailbox even with local failure Message-ID: <199610222148.OAA24305@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu> Resent-Message-ID: <199610222200.PAA08546@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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:
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