From owner-freebsd-security Sun Jun 9 23:19:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA23747 for security-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 23:19:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hemi.com (hemi.com [204.132.158.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA23731 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 23:19:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mbarkah@localhost) by hemi.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA05447; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 00:19:51 -0600 From: Ade Barkah Message-Id: <199606100619.AAA05447@hemi.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD's /var/mail permissions To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 00:19:51 -0600 (MDT) Cc: security@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606092316.BAA04141@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Jun 10, 96 01:16:39 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ollivier Robert wrote: > It seems that Ade Barkah said: > > > > popper[20737]: @remote-host: -ERR POP EOF received > > > > Any ideas why this might be happening ? I'm sure I'm not the only > > one seeing many of these. It seems like a chronic problem on the > > client side. > > Client closing the connection without a QUIT command ? Hmm, that would do it. I'll run with full debugging on to see when exactly the EOF was received. With earlier versions of QPOP we never got this POP EOF, but rather numerous POP TIMEOUTs. Thanks, -Ade ------------------------------------------------------------------- Inet: mbarkah@hemi.com - HEMISPHERE ONLINE - -------------------------------------------------------------------