On Fri, 26 Jun 1998 16:10:49 -0500, brianh_at_netins.net writes:
>
Thanks to
"Randall S. Winchester" <rsw_at_Glue.umd.edu>
Richard Eisenman <richarde_at_tricity.wsu.edu>
Ben Maas <bmaas_at_brainerd.net>
Leonardo Mosquera
among others.
Original message:
>
>This may be a little off topic but I don't have a better forum for this
>one.
>
>We are seeing /var/spool/mail files becoming corrupted with parts of the
>previous message not being delted. The file will look like this.
>
>blah blah blah (end of previous message)
>
>>From:brianh_at_netins.net..(complete headers and valid messages follows)
>
>If you just go in and delete the top few lines until you get a valid from
>line you are ok. Has anyone else seen anything like this ever happending?
>We are running 4.0B, Qpopper2.4. This happends after a user downloads a
>message and then clears it from the server. It does not have anything to
>do with incoming, because in a few cases we have seen just the end of a
>letter and no from line.
>
Most everyone said that they had experienced the same problems with
different qpopper versions. On monday I moved to ipop3d, which seemed to
work better. Unfortunatly we have a system where sometimes people use pop
clients and sometimes they use mh/pine. Ipop3d inserts a "control"
message at the top of all mail folders, which is then incorporated with
mh/pine, but not pop clients. So last night I had to explain to 10,000
people why they got a message of "Do NOT delete this message" from our
servers. Ipop also appears to have a memory leak that crashes our system
after about 2 hours of heavy use.
I am now trying to compile other pop servers to test them (very little
luck, ideas on different servers?).
--Brian
Received on Tue Jun 30 1998 - 22:03:21 NZST