Re: qmail-pop3d is not working asap

[Image - Odinn Sorensen]

Hello Marlon.

Tue 16 Feb 1999 20:06, Marlon Anthony Abao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 > is it the proper behavior of qmail-pop3d not to give out mails as soon
 > as they get the user Maildirs?

 > however after a period of around 3-5 minutes, i get my mails.  so it
 > is no question that the pop3 server is working or not.

For some reason qmail-pop3d ignores mails dated in the future. Check the
time sync of your machines.

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Re: qmail-pop3d is not working asap

[Chris Bond]

What line do you have in inetd.conf?

Marlon Anthony Abao wrote:

> hello,
>
> is it the proper behavior of qmail-pop3d not to give out mails as soon as
> they get the user Maildirs?
>
> i noticed this behavior when i moved to the Maildir format and to
> qmail-pop3d.  i see the mail files in ~/Maildir/new/ but when i fire up a
> POP3 client, it says that i don't have any mails!
>
> i did the pop3 conversation myself by telneting the port 110 of my mail
> server and sure enough, it says that no mails :(
>
> however after a period of around 3-5 minutes, i get my mails.  so it is no
> question that the pop3 server is working or not.
>
> am using home directories over NFS so is this the problem?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -marlon

Re: qmail-pop3d is not working asap

[Mark Delany]

At 08:06 PM 2/16/99, Marlon Anthony Abao wrote:
>hello,
>
>is it the proper behavior of qmail-pop3d not to give out mails as soon as
>they get the user Maildirs?
>
>i noticed this behavior when i moved to the Maildir format and to
>qmail-pop3d.  i see the mail files in ~/Maildir/new/ but when i fire up a
>POP3 client, it says that i don't have any mails!
>
>i did the pop3 conversation myself by telneting the port 110 of my mail
>server and sure enough, it says that no mails :(
>
>however after a period of around 3-5 minutes, i get my mails.  so it is no
>question that the pop3 server is working or not.
>
>am using home directories over NFS so is this the problem?

Almost certainly. qmail-pop3d does nothing special. All it does is a 
readdir() on Maildir/[new|cur]. If the OS doesn't return the files, then 
that's the end of the story.

It's also easy to test without going thru the network version:

$ cd
$ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
list
quit
$

Probably something to do with caching by the local NFS client.


Regards.

qmail-pop3d is not working asap

[Marlon Anthony Abao]

hello,

is it the proper behavior of qmail-pop3d not to give out mails as soon as
they get the user Maildirs?

i noticed this behavior when i moved to the Maildir format and to
qmail-pop3d.  i see the mail files in ~/Maildir/new/ but when i fire up a
POP3 client, it says that i don't have any mails!

i did the pop3 conversation myself by telneting the port 110 of my mail
server and sure enough, it says that no mails :(

however after a period of around 3-5 minutes, i get my mails.  so it is no
question that the pop3 server is working or not.

am using home directories over NFS so is this the problem?

Thanks in advance!



-marlon