Re[4]: pop3 mail problem
I saw another list member post that we should stay away from qpopper. I haven't heard anything - either good or bad. Do you know what the problem is with that daemon. My Debian machine is serving 600 or so dial-up connections for mail (coming and going) and authentication. If I need to switch for more reliable performance I need to know. Any ideas? Thanks, Michael _ Michael Roark Systems Administrator Telconnect, Inc. v. 912.685.3947 f. 912.685.4880 _ _ Going to church does not make a person religious, nor does going to school make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car. - unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re[4]: pop3 mail problem
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:38:04 -0500 (EST), Michael Roark wrote: I saw another list member post that we should stay away from qpopper. I haven't heard anything - either good or bad. Do you know what the problem is with that daemon. My Debian machine is serving 600 or so dial-up connections for mail (coming and going) and authentication. If I need to switch for more reliable performance I need to know. Any ideas? It is just personal bias on my part against qpopper because of one glaring oversight they made. In the non-standard (IIRC) pop send feature, which I do use from time to time, they properly accept an escaped \n.\n string. EG, they take \n..\n and strip it to the proper \n.\n string. The problem is, when they pass it on to the SMTP server they forget to escape it again so any message which contains a dot on a line by itself will end prematurely. To me that is unforgivable and calls into question what other glaring errors are lurking just below the surface. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They hired me for my ICQ: 5107343 | skills and labor, not my opinions! ---+- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re[4]: pop3 mail problem
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:38:04 -0500 (EST), Michael Roark wrote: It is just personal bias on my part against qpopper because of one glaring oversight they made. In the non-standard (IIRC) pop send feature, which I do use from time to time, they properly accept an escaped \n.\n string. EG, they take \n..\n and strip it to the proper \n.\n string. The problem is, when they pass it on to the SMTP server they forget to escape it again so any message which contains a dot on a line by itself will end prematurely. Have you bothered to file a bug report into the Debian Bug System about this? Then it can be fixed you know .. To me that is unforgivable and calls into question what other glaring errors are lurking just below the surface. AFAIK there's only one error in qpopper and that is starting at version 2.4 it has become non-free.. so Debian is stuck with 2.3 forever. Worse, cucipop is non-free too.. and so is qmail-pop3d. I have fixed several bugs in qpopper already... unfortunately I will not send them upstream because of the new non-freeness. But fixes will continue to be integrated into the debian qpopper_2.3 package. Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eliminating it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re[4]: pop3 mail problem
On 9 Jun 1998 20:38:11 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Have you bothered to file a bug report into the Debian Bug System about this? Then it can be fixed you know .. No. This was before I used Debian that I noticed it and also does not relate to my Debian system as it is on my ISP's system... They run BSD variants. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They hired me for my ICQ: 5107343 | skills and labor, not my opinions! ---+- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
