I am running Solaris 8 with Sendmail Switch 2.2(the commercial version of Sendmail). I run procmail as the local mailer and am currently running ipop3d(the version that came with the Sun Internet Mail Server that was packaged with Solaris 7.) I tested qpopper 4.0.3 a few months ago when we began having problems with customers mailboxes locking up for no reason. We could simply move the mailbox to a temp file, send a new test message and have the user check it and delete it, then simply move the temp mailbox back and then they could download the messages. Weird. Anyway, back to the point, once qpopper was installed, customers began receiving messages that they had already received many months ago. It's not that the messages were never delivered, it's just that they appeared again. That is why I am thinking that the when my users checked their mail using our webmail server, which just retrieves messages using pop3, that somehow qpopper saw the messages on the webmail server as new messages and was somehow downloading them back to the server. Even getting the messages that were in the users deleted items in webmail. Does that sound possible? I didn't think that pop3 could do anything like that though.
I am going to do some testing on a second server I have available and see what happens. I will update everyone once my testing is done. Thanks, Charley Morgan Internet Engineer Megagate Broadband Phone: 601.450.2580 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please Note My NEW Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: mozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 4:24 AM To: Charley Morgan; Subscribers of Qpopper Subject: Re: weird problem after upgrading to qpopper Hi all I am replying to this as I have a similar problem that I have been trying to track for a while now. Suddenly(about 10 days ago) I start getting mail in from a couple of months ago. It is rather embarrasing as it was an invite to customers and some of them are mad because they wanted to partake in the special. I checked the headers and mailman, mailscanner server, and sendmail/procmail on the box delivered it on that day. It also happens randomly and I can not see a specifc pattern. Of the tens of thousands that I sent I recon 500 or 600 have problem. I will be interested to see the headers of the mail that you got in late. Check if sendmail delivered it correctly a year ago that way we can see where your problem is. I use redhat 7.3 sendmail 8.12.6 and qpopper version 4.0.3 (standalone) The only thing I cannot varify is qpopper. Tnx Mozzi On Monday 30 June 2003 16:22, Charley Morgan wrote: > I am running Solaris 8 with Sendmail as the MTA, procmail as the local > mailer and ipop3d(part of SIMS that came with Solaris 7) for POP access. > I upgraded to qpopper because of some problems we were having with POP > access and all of a sudden mail that was VERY old began appearing in > peoples mailboxes. I mean messages that were a year old. Any idea why > this would happen? The only thing I can figure is that our webmail > server which is a separate server that makes a copy of messages from our > main server was somehow putting messages back on the main server. Is > that possible? The only thing webmail does is use POP3 to retrieve > messages. > > Thanks for any input. > > Charley Morgan > Internet Engineer > Megagate Broadband > Phone: 601.450.2580 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please Note My NEW Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************ Scanned by @lantic IS Virus Control Service This message was scanned for viruses and dangerous content. @lantic Internet Services (Pty) Ltd. - http://www.lantic.net eScan for Windows-based PCs - http://www.escan.co.za ************************************************************
