On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > What is the best pop3d? I've heard that qpopper can corrupt mail files > under even lightly loaded systems.
I know that the standard POP-3 daemon (from BSD, used by slackware) is not creating any session lock. So it is possible for a user to have to pop3d session at once and this result in corrupt folder (in fact, often the mail get duplicated). The problem is that sometime, user try to get their email and for different reason are not patient enough and "try again". So mail program then close the current POP session and start a new one. The original pop3d take some time to close the connexion when it does some cleanup on the incoming folder. This is enough time a new pop3d to start on the same folder. Given there is not lock, some corruption exist. The virtual pop3d daemon (create with the original BSD pop3d daemon from slackware) has a session lock to prevent this problem and may be used as a replacement for standard pop3d. The lock stuff may be folded back in the original pop3d very easily is someone needs that. -------------------------------------------------------- Jacques Gelinas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linuxconf: The ultimate administration system for Linux. see http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf new development: dhcp, disk quota management, virtual email accounts -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
