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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