At 11:23 PM +0100 1/10/02, Jesus Cea Avion wrote: >b) The next datagram from the server will simply banish. TCP retransmits >and the following datagrams also banish. A black hole... > >In this situation QPOPPER hasn't any timeout, so the server will be >blocked forever.
Why forever? Worst case should be that Qpopper never gets an error whilst sending packets, so it sends all for the message, then waits for input. While waiting for input it times out and cleans up. --
