Re: mailagent and MH

[bem5r@virginia.edu (Brian Mays)]

>>>>> Regarding Re: mailagent and MH ; "Susan G. Kleinmann"
	<sgk@sgk.tiac.net> adds:

    Susan> $ popclient -3 -P ~/.tiac pop1.tiac.net
    Susan> QUALCOMM Pop server derived from UCB (version |214r3+TIAC|)
    Susan> at mailserver1 starting.
    Susan> 1 messages in folder
    Susan> reading message 1...
    Susan> $ scan last
    Susan> 4955  08/20 Michael Meskes     Re: Shadow vss PAM<<Patrick W
    Susan> $ scan last
    Susan> 4956  08/21 To:jbs@phast.umas  monitor info<<Hi Janice -- Yo

    Susan> Notice that:
    Susan> -- the popclient finished before I executed the 'scan'
    Susan>    command,
    Susan> -- the first of the two "scan last" commands finished
    Susan>    before I executed the second.
    Susan> -- the second "scan last" yielded a different result the
    Susan>    second time I invoked it.

    Susan> This must certainly be a bug.  I don't know if it is in
    Susan> popclient, mailagent, or possibly MH.

Last time I checked, the popclient program simply retrieves each
message from the server and mails it, using the generic `mail'
program, to the user's local account.  Then the MTA, such as sendmail
or smail, actually delivers the message, sending it to mailagent if
instructed to in the user's .forward file.  The delay that you have
observed is the time required for the local MTA to deliver the
message.

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Brian Mays