qpopper weirdness

2001-04-04 Thread MaD dUCK
hey, i am using qpopper for pop3 access. one of my users hasn't been reading mail in two weeks, and now her mailbox is 16Mb. that's not a lot, no. however, she uses microcrap software, which is not succeeding at downloading whereas a direct POP3 interaction with the server through netcat revealed t

Re: qpopper weirdness

2001-04-04 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Wed, 04 Apr 2001 03:03:39PM -0500): > I never had any major problems with cucipop. There are two caveats: well, for the sake of fixing this promptly, i went ahead and replaced qpopper with cucipop. however, now there is a 20 second delay between the user entering t

Re: qpopper weirdness

2001-04-04 Thread Nate Amsden
MaD dUCK wrote: > > also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Wed, 04 Apr 2001 03:03:39PM -0500): > > I never had any major problems with cucipop. There are two caveats: > > well, for the sake of fixing this promptly, i went ahead and replaced > qpopper with cucipop. however, now there is a 20 second dela

Re: qpopper weirdness

2001-04-05 Thread Nathan Ollerenshaw
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > hey, > i am using qpopper for pop3 access. one of my users hasn't been > reading mail in two weeks, and now her mailbox is 16Mb. that's not a > lot, no. however, she uses microcrap software, which is not succeeding > at downloading whereas a direct POP3 intera

Re: qpopper weirdness

2001-04-05 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Nathan Ollerenshaw (on Thu, 05 Apr 2001 11:45:18AM +0100): > Yeah, qpopper does that. Try running it in "server" mode (I forget the > correct switch) or switch to cucipop which doesn't play around with the > mailbox so much. tried both, but with no success. so i ended up converting the

cucipop delays (was: qpopper weirdness)

2001-04-04 Thread MaD dUCK
an addendum... the delay is dependent on the mailbox size. if i POP to an account with a small mailbox, it works like a jiffy. however, when connecting to an account with a 16Mb mailbox size, it takes 20 seconds before cucipop returns the login acknowledgement. i.e. fishbowl:~> nc mail 110 +OK Cu