At 08:06 PM 2/16/99, Marlon Anthony Abao wrote:
>hello,
>
>is it the proper behavior of qmail-pop3d not to give out mails as soon as
>they get the user Maildirs?
>
>i noticed this behavior when i moved to the Maildir format and to
>qmail-pop3d. i see the mail files in ~/Maildir/new/ but when i fire up a
>POP3 client, it says that i don't have any mails!
>
>i did the pop3 conversation myself by telneting the port 110 of my mail
>server and sure enough, it says that no mails :(
>
>however after a period of around 3-5 minutes, i get my mails. so it is no
>question that the pop3 server is working or not.
>
>am using home directories over NFS so is this the problem?
Almost certainly. qmail-pop3d does nothing special. All it does is a
readdir() on Maildir/[new|cur]. If the OS doesn't return the files, then
that's the end of the story.
It's also easy to test without going thru the network version:
$ cd
$ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
list
quit
$
Probably something to do with caching by the local NFS client.
Regards.
