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Ken A wrote: <snip> > > Joe Maimon wrote: > >> >>Daniel Senie wrote: >> >> >>>At 05:18 PM 5/26/2005, Clifton Royston wrote: >>> >>> >>>>On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 06:26:42AM -0400, Joe Maimon wrote: <snip> >>>> <snip> >> >> > > > I would also like to see some way to limit users (per user) to a number > of pop3 checks per minute, but without generating support calls because > of an error message. It would be better to simply return "no new > messages on server" for x minutes if possible (still with no i/o). I'm > not at all sure how difficult that change would be to implement. > > Short of that, I'd definitely like to see the HappyMail patch put into > the main codebase. > > Ken Anderson > Pacific.Net > > I have posted a minimally tested patch to the happymail patch which does exactly that. http://www.jmaimon.com/qpopper/#happy-pl8-jmpl5 Basically the patch causes popper to return early from pop_dropcopy() and from pop_updt() before any IO is done.