DASCHER@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (David Ascher) (01/30/91)
We have been beta-testing a POP3 setup, using Eudora as a Mac client and the berkeley popper as the unix server (running on Sun Sparc1, SunOS 4.1). All is fine, both pieces of software are well written, except for this problem which just appeared today with the popper software: When a POP3 session is in progress, i.e. when someone is RETRieving mail from the server, if for any reason the client shuts down (mac failure, network problems, etc.) all the mail for that user on the server is lost. Which means that if I'm retrieving the first of 100 messages I have on the server and the network goes down, my mac freezes, etc, I lose 99 messages. This is obviously a serious problem with the popper server. Has anyone heard of this problem, and suggested fixes? We could go into the code for popper, which is quite simple and nice, but we'd rather avoid it... Thanks for any info David Ascher Brown University Computing and Information Services