One of our users uses MS outlook from home system with DSL link. From time to time, a logout/disconnect from outlook deletes messages! This behavior occurred several nights ago, but as you can see, the process to open the mailbox with PID 8994 didn't close until 4+hours. There were several attempts
to read the mail between the open/close, hence the error opening lines.


The problem is the ndele=2424 message - what would cause ipop to delete messages if user did not specify to?

May 16 21:25:01 server ipop3d[8994]: Login user=user host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxxx..19.154.78] nmsgs=2424/2424
May 16 21:43:24 server ipop3d[9318]: Error opening or locking INBOX user=tom host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78]
May 16 21:43:24 server ipop3d[9318]: Login user=user host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78] no mailbox
May 16 21:43:24 server ipop3d[9318]: Logout user=user host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78] nmsgs=2424 ndele=0
May 16 21:47:40 server ipop3d[9356]: Error opening or locking INBOX user=tom host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78]
May 16 21:47:40 server ipop3d[9356]: Login user=user host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78] no mailbox
May 16 21:47:40 server ipop3d[9356]: Logout user=user host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78] nmsgs=2424 ndele=0
May 16 22:01:40 server ipop3d[9694]: Error opening or locking INBOX user=tom host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78]
May 16 22:01:40 server ipop3d[9694]: Login user=user host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78] no mailbox
May 16 22:01:40 server ipop3d[9694]: Logout user=user host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78] nmsgs=2425 ndele=0
May 16 23:28:01 server ipop3d[11632]: Error opening or locking INBOX user=tom host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78]
May 16 23:28:01 server ipop3d[11632]: Login user=user host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78] no mailbox
May 16 23:28:01 server ipop3d[11632]: Logout user=user host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78] nmsgs=2426 ndele=0


---MESSAGES DELETED HERE---
May 17 00:28:07 server ipop3d[8994]: Logout user=user host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78] nmsgs=6 ndele=2424
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May 17 08:27:39 server ipop3d[21151]: Login user=user host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78] nmsgs=17/17
May 17 08:28:02 server ipop3d[21151]: Logout user=user host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78] nmsgs=17 ndele=0


Here is what normal pop activity should look like, where a logout immediately follows a login for the same PROCESS ID (the number in []):

May 15 09:38:50 server ipop3d[30729]: Login user=user host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78] nmsgs=2491/2491
May 15 09:39:04 server ipop3d[30729]: Logout user=user host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78] nmsgs=2491 ndele=0
May 15 11:56:15 server ipop3d[316]: Login user=user host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78] nmsgs=2491/2491
May 15 11:56:18 server ipop3d[316]: Logout user=user host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78] nmsgs=2491 ndele=0
May 15 11:56:25 server ipop3d[341]: Login user=user host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78] nmsgs=2491/2491
May 15 11:56:26 server ipop3d[341]: Logout user=user host=blah-xxx-19-154-78.bos.east.verizon.net [xxx.19.154.78] nmsgs=2491 ndele=0


    Thanks!

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Ken Kleiner
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Computer Science Department
Umass Lowell

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