On 1 Dec 1999, Petr Novotny wrote:
> I am only asking for speculations. :-)
>
> My wife has an account at a Czech freemail service running qmail
> (and qmail-pop3d). I know nothing of the internal setup. Lately it
> seems that they have problems with POP3 access.
>
> I tried to manually telnet into their pop3 box and basically this is
> what happens: USER and PASS are greeted with OK. LIST lists
> two messages. Both RETR 1 and RETR 2 are answered with
> "-ERR cannot open that message". Reading qmail-pop3d.c, I think
> it means that open() failed on that messages.
>
> I wonder how it might be possible (in a non-psychic setup) to have
> scandir() work perfectly and open() fail.
>
> There's no shell access to the account. Only pop3 and webmail.
The actual mail files owned by someone other than you with permissions
600? Scandir will see it, you just can't open it.
Vince.
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