On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:19:41AM -0800, Matt Denton wrote: > I've recompiled popper (4.0.3) twice with --enable-server-mode and > it's still creating .user.pop files that play havoc with the free > space on disk. I'm running under solaris 2.7 with sendmail 8.11.6. My > spool directory is /var/mail and a soft link to /var/mail lives in > /var/spool/mail for redundancy.
These files should not exist *except* when actually needed to recopy the spool for updates during a session. Updating a spool file in-place with insertions and deletions in the middle of the file, with no temp file, would be pretty difficult; so even in server mode, temp files will be created, but should be deleted at the end of a session unless something is going wrong. If you also use the --keep-temp-drop option when you configure qpopper, to keep the files, they will be kept around for time-stamp purposes but should be zero-length files. If they're coming and going - that's normal and pretty much unavoidable. If they're actually sitting around taking up disk space, something is probably going wrong on process termination when qpopper tries to update them back to the main spool - try checking your logs, and then try running a qpopper session with a trace file. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWJD? "JWRTFM!" - Scott Dorsey (kludge) "JWG" - Eddie Aikau
