Tim- As a "symptom checking" idea, check the first lines of bot the pop temp file, and the mailspool. Do they start with "From: "? Qpopper, as I recall, absolutely requires that message separator.
I have run into corruption in the past when either a mail machine or disk crashed, or the writing of the mailspool was otherwise interrupted. Hopefully this might point you in the right direction. Sincerely, Michael Klatsky Senior Unix Administrator Connecticut Telephone 1 Talcott Plaza Hartford, CT 06103 1-860-240-6496 -----Original Message----- From: Tim Tyler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 12:45 PM To: Subscribers of Qpopper Subject: qpopper 4.03 corruption? Qpopper experts, We recently installed qpopper 4.03 back in December. Since then we have had 4 occurrances where their mailbox in /var/spool/mail became corrupt for some reason. We have configured qpopper to write the temporary pop file to a different directory structure (/var/spool/pop). Given that we have 1500 active users, it seems to be working for the most part. But occassionally some users with a quite a few megabytes of email will find that when they have their client configured to leave on server, their temporary pop file can't get written back to the mailbox file properly. This has only happened 4 times now, but it is raising a red flag for me. Something is corrupting the mailbox file because if I 'vi' into the mailbox and resave (w!) the file, the file becomes approximately 1/10 of its original size. Its as though the file thinks its much larger than it really is. This is an obvious corruption, but I don't know why. It also appears to be a small subset of the temp pop file which remains in the /var/spool/pop directory. What might cause the mailbox file to become corrupted when the temp pop file tries to write itself back to the mailbox file? Is there a compile option that I might consider to minimize corruption? Note: we do use a quota, but not all incidences exceeded the quota. Also, we never had this problem with the old qpopper 2.0. -- Tim Tyler Network Manager - Beloit College [EMAIL PROTECTED]
