qpopper, Lenoard, Yes, I forgot to mention it. Our system is AIX 4.3.3 running on Risc/6000. We compiled qpopper with the following options: -enable-keep-tempdrop -enable-tempdrop-directory=/var/spool/pop -with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl
The config file contains: set tls-support=stls set tls-server-cert-file=/etc/mail/certs/cert.pem Tim > >Hi Tim, > >You might follow-up to the list with the OS of your server and >configuration qpopper, unless I missed it reading your message. > >-- Leonard > >At 09:45 AM 2/6/2002, you wrote: >>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] > > -- Tim Tyler Network Manager - Beloit College [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go Packers! Go Badgers! 1999&2000 Rose Bowl Champions!
