Louis, > It is the behavior documented in the man page, though I'm not really > sure why it's written that way. I am hoping Dr. Dan Bernstein could shed some lights on this issue. No. I couldn't figure it out either. > There's no obvious reason why both calls to strerr_warn1() shouldn't > print, and it's hard to guess without more detailed information. The > relevant portion of a trace along with your run file and the uname -a > of your system would be useful. I will try again tomorrow. got interrupted in the afternoon by some other things. I am doing my development and testing on a SUN SS5 170 Mhz with 128 MB RAM running Solaris 7; uname -a yields: SunOS mikey 5.7 Generic_106541-10 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5 GCC 2.95.2 is used for compilation. [...] > I just tried this, along with my own version of the patch you're > writing, and things works as expected on my machine. (Yes, this is > extremely weak assurance. :) I will test your version tomorrow on my development machine as well. > The diffs to qmail-pop3d.c and qmail-popup.c are appended to this > message. [diffs saved]. I have some other ideas that I will implement once the logging to multilog issue is resolved completely. Thanks for the fruitful exchanges so far. Best Regards, Chin Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED]