Where do you find the virtual pop3d? Curtis
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Jacques Gelinas wrote: > 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] .