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Joe Maimon wrote: > > > 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. > > There seem to be some issues with this patch. It stalls the pop3 session after getting the password for about 15 seconds, then says 'no new messages in the MUA (tested with thunderbird & command line). Thanks, Ken A >
