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Re: linux v2.0: networking & sendmail changes?



In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.91.960613233555.8861C-100000@taz.net.au>,
Craig Sanders  <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
>One site I installed debian on uses sendmail.  There are several dial
>in users, mostly using pop3d to retrieve their mail.  
>
>Under some circumstances (*see below), pop3d hangs - leaving a large
>temporary file in /tmp and also leaving the user's mail file locked.
>
>The mailbox stays locked until the pop3d process is killed.  Meanwhile
>mail can not be delivered to that user.  As this is on a small
>hobbyist/bbs type system, that might be a day or so before the admin
>notices the problem.  Not good.

Install the qualcomm popper instead - current debian version is 2.1.4-2,
but I'll release a 2.1.4-3 tomorrow because the previous one has a
serious locking problem. Other than that - it works beautifully.

Package name is qpopper-2.1.4-3

Mike.
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