da@cs.brown.edu (David Ascher) (02/19/91)
This isn't mac-centered, but does affect all the people on this newsgroup who use UCB's "popper" as a POP3 server. It appears that if the connexion between _popper_ and the client (eudora, etc.) dies in the middle of retrieving a set of mail messages, the server loses all the mail messages for that user. Scenario: User logs on to Eudora, "Checks for mail". Say there are a hundred messages in his/her mailbox, it takes a while to transfer. At message 10, the mac crashes, the network goes down -- the connexion dies. When s/he checks for mail with Eudora the next time, there are no mail messages. This is obviously a bug with popper. Has anyone else noticed it before? Does anyone have a fix? Thanks for any info. --david ascher --brown university CIS --DASCHER@Brownvm.Brown.Edu -- ---------- da@cs.brown.edu (Internet) uunet!brunix!da (uucp) da@browncs.bitnet (bitnet) Box 3209, Brown University, Providence RI 02912 -- (1) (401) 863-4348
dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) (02/24/91)
In article <DA.91Feb18124752@igor.cs.brown.edu> da@cs.brown.edu (David Ascher) writes: >It appears that if the connexion between _popper_ and the client >(eudora, etc.) dies in the middle of retrieving a set of mail >messages, the server loses all the mail messages for that user. Something else must be happening. I regularly crash test versions of Eudora while transferring mail with popper, and have yet to lose a single message. I'm running popper 1.7b4 (the final release of popper was 1.7, so I'm a bit behind the times). Older versions of popper (1.6) sometimes lost mail under the right circumstances (not broken connections, but arrival of new mail while popper had the mailbox open). -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner