Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!rick From: rick@vox.trystero.com (Richard E. Nickle) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Setting POP on FreeBSD Date: 8 Jan 1995 15:22:27 GMT Organization: The Trystero System Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3eovvj$j8g@sundog.tiac.net> References: <3ebqiq$6ps@lucy.infi.net> <3ed6l3$kpk@sundog.tiac.net> <3ed7tu$i4n@agate.berkeley.edu> <D22H5q.53L@indirect.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vox.trystero.com In article <D22H5q.53L@indirect.com>, Barnacle Wes <wes@indirect.com> wrote: >Richard E. Nickle <rick@vox.trystero.com> reported: >> POP doesn't know how to delete messages properly. I hacked on it for >> some time and managed to fix some cases, but I haven't fixed them all >> yet (I sorta gave up for the time being). > >Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote: >: Are you sure of this? Are you sure you're not using MH's POP support >: without the -truncate flag to inc? I use pop almost every day and it >: truncates the mailbox just fine! > > >Telnet to the pop server manually, delete a message in the middle, and >quit. Check the mailbox to see if the message has been deleted. (Ain't >"chatty" protocols wunnerful?) It is always important to isolate client >vs. server bugs in client-server systems. ;^) Hey, no, this is exactly how I found the problem. I don't have a POP client for FreeBSD, so I was testing it with telnet, to make sure it worked before my friend tried using a client from a DOS box. >I've been working with a recent version of popper on FreeBSD 1.1, and now >with the "qpop" package for FreeBSD 2.0 from the CD-ROM, and have not >encountered this problem at all. I still got it. Think I'll recompile it yet again, maybe I got another problem. I've tried three versions (a pop3 I pulled from ftp.uu.net, the qpop from the ports directory on FreeBSD, and the original (unpatched) qpop that they ported. -- -- Richard Nickle http://www.trystero.com/rick.html