mst@mx.csun.edu (Michael Temkin) (07/27/90)
I am getting the following from inc when used with a popserver:
Incorporating new mail into inbox...
12+ 07/26 To:mst@pop Testing<<This is a test Mike. >>
inc: eof encountered in field ""
??Format error (message 13) in component 1
13 07/26*To:
popd seems to think that I have 2 mail messages waiting when I only
have one. Any ideas?
Mike.
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Mike Temkin
mst@csun.edu ...!{sdcrdcf,hplabs,psivax,ttidca}!csun!mst
Cal. State U. Northridge, School of Engineering and Computer Science
Voice phone: (818) 885-3919tpersky@suntory.dcrt.nih.gov (Ted Persky) (07/30/90)
---> Here is a copy of a similar bug, which I've forwarded ---> to the bug-reports address at Irvine. Hello, I'm running POP (RPOP and DPOP) on an IBM RT which runs Release 3 of the Academic Operating System (BSD 4.3). When I run the command, "inc -notruncate" on the client machine, it correctly retrieves the four messages in the maildrop but adds 40 characters to the maildrop. The additional chars are sets of \001\001\001\001, which is my mail delimiter (1 and 2) from the mtstailor file. There is one set of four \001's at both the start and end of the maildrop, and each message is separated from the next by two lines of four such chars. The next time I run just "inc", it incorporates the same mail, but I get the following message, inc: eof encountered in field "" ??Format error (message 9) in component 1 9 07/13*To: By the way, if I run a "msgchk" in between the two "inc's", the program says I have five msgs instead of four. Sincerely, Ted Persky phone: (301) 496-2963 Building 12A, Room 2031 uucp: uunet!nih-csl!tpersky National Institutes of Health Internet: tpersky@alw.nih.gov Bethesda, MD 20892
jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) (08/06/90)
In article <1990Jul27.155347.27001@csun.edu> mst@mx.csun.edu (Michael Temkin) writes: I am getting the following from inc when used with a popserver: Incorporating new mail into inbox... 12+ 07/26 To:mst@pop Testing<<This is a test Mike. >> inc: eof encountered in field "" ??Format error (message 13) in component 1 13 07/26*To: popd seems to think that I have 2 mail messages waiting when I only have one. Any ideas? In article <280@nih-csl.nih.gov> tpersky@suntory.dcrt.nih.gov (Ted Persky) writes: The next time I run just "inc", it incorporates the same mail, but I get the following message, inc: eof encountered in field "" ??Format error (message 9) in component 1 9 07/13*To: The problem is the new pop daemon. Someone hacked it so that it only understands UNIX-style mailboxes (i.e. Messages delimited by a line starting "From "....) and no longer understands MMDF mailboxes, which usually have a line of 4 Control-A's at the start and end of each mail message. The result is that popd cannot split the mailbox into individual messages and moans about format errors because of the presence (or absence) of MMDF delimiters. The mmdelim[12] fields in the mtstailor file are ignored by popd, so correctly setting them won't help! This is somewhat annoying. Much more irritating is how the old behaviour of popd was lost. (It used to understand MMDF and not sendmail mailboxes.) It would have taken little effort to fold in the updates for sendmail and provided a #ifdef to select the appropriate mailbox style depending on the mailer that was provided. After all, mhconfig knows what the mailer is and arranges to have a suitable define - -DMMDFII or -DSENDMTS - set up in the Makefiles. Jim
mst@mx.csun.edu (Michael Temkin) (08/07/90)
In article <JIM.90Aug6150649@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) writes: >In article <1990Jul27.155347.27001@csun.edu> mst@mx.csun.edu (Michael Temkin) writes: > > I am getting the following from inc when used with a popserver: > >In article <280@nih-csl.nih.gov> tpersky@suntory.dcrt.nih.gov (Ted Persky) writes: > > The next time I run just "inc", it incorporates the same mail, but I get > the following message, > >The problem is the new pop daemon. >[stuff deleted] > Jim Actually the mailboxes are in the correct format (4 Ctrl-A's), the problem was in support/pop/popser.c (line 703). The line reads something like: return (msgs - 1) I traced the error (for 2+ days) and found that if I changed it to: return (msgs - 2) that it word perfectly. Mike. -- Mike Temkin mst@csun.edu Cal. State U. Northridge, School of Engineering and Computer Science Voice phone: (818) 885-3919