Before I get angry replies on my angry postings.... I will try to ask
something very polite :-)
I have a question to "the general Imail audience", and to "les
connaisseurs" (French for "those who realy know") in particular:
When a user is logged in to the POP3 - daemon, should the mailserver (Imail
in this case) LOCK the pop3 - access for this user as long he is logged in
so he can't open a second pop3-session to the same mailbox ?
I ask this because:
- I tried. I opened two telnet-sessions to a given pop3-mailbox on our
Imail-system and read the same (large, to have the time to see what is
going on behind the scene....) message on both sessions.
This works.
I also had a look in the users directory. No lock-files or there, no "sign"
of the fact that there are two sessions accessing the same mailbox and the
same message at the same time.
I wonder if this is "by design".
Why I wonder is:
-we have quit some customers complaining they can not read mail using POP3.
Using the (excellent BTW, for dial-up setups, so sorry for mentioning a
competion-product....) FTGate soft from Floosietek.
Our Imail logfiles show there seem to be two "almost parallel" connections
to the same mailbox (date and time or the same, the tracking-id is different).
Why this is I do not know yet. Perhaps some setting in FtGate. I'll try to
figure this one out.
But, when these things happen, users can not read mail (Smart-pop it's
called in FtGate) and the logfile shows a R:0 D:0 P:0 for both sessions,
and then a "send error 10054" on the users IP (from where both sessions
were happening).
BTW, there definatly IS mail in the main.mbx at that time.
Now on the FtGate - support-pages I read in the release-notes from their
Service Release 2 for FtGate V 2.2:
------------->
.....
SmartPop will not try to access a mailbox that it already has open (for
those dumb servers that dont know how to lock mailboxes).
......
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So it seems the FtGate-people are convinced a pop3-session should exclude a
second pop3-session to the same mailbox....
My question is
-who's right ?
*FTGate telling that a pop3 shouild be locked ?
*Imail not locking it ?
What do "you" think ?
Happy holidays all, of course.
And sorry guy's for the fact I seem to be a pain in the ...
But if you would be over here answering all phonecalls from our angry
customers, I bet you would get "overstressed" too.
The programmers amongst us seem to know that feeling ;-)
P.S. To be clear about this: I am NOT telling "Imail is a dumb mailserver"...
I just quoted and have no idea if the FtGate people are refering to any
product in particular.
;-)
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