Re: what is the best pop3d?
Where do you find the virtual pop3d?
Curtis
On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Jacques Gelinas wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
>
> > What is the best pop3d? I've heard that qpopper can corrupt mail files
> > under even lightly loaded systems.
>
> I know that the standard POP-3 daemon (from BSD, used by slackware) is not
> creating any session lock. So it is possible for a user to have to pop3d
> session at once and this result in corrupt folder (in fact, often the mail
> get duplicated).
>
> The problem is that sometime, user try to get their email and for
> different reason are not patient enough and "try again". So mail program
> then close the current POP session and start a new one. The original pop3d
> take some time to close the connexion when it does some cleanup on the
> incoming folder. This is enough time a new pop3d to start on the same
> folder. Given there is not lock, some corruption exist.
>
> The virtual pop3d daemon (create with the original BSD pop3d daemon from
> slackware) has a session lock to prevent this problem and may be used as a
> replacement for standard pop3d. The lock stuff may be folded back in the
> original pop3d very easily is someone needs that.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Jacques Gelinas (jacques@solucorp.qc.ca)
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