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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!noiro.acs.uci.edu!nntpsrv
- From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
- Subject: popd reports wrong number of messages waiting
- Nntp-Posting-Host: draco.acs.uci.edu
- Message-ID: <2A74DCA5.29841@noiro.acs.uci.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
- Organization: University of California, Irvine
- Lines: 76
- Date: 28 Jul 92 05:35:33 GMT
-
- We're running mh v6.7.1 on a Sun 690MP w/SunOS 4.1.2 (mh was built under
- SunOS 4.1.1). We have popd configured to use the POP database rather
- than /etc/passwd. We're using IDA sendmail with the mods to the .cf
- file to make pop mail go thru spop.
-
- When a pop client connects, popd will return 1 more than the real
- number of messages in the maildrop, both after the "pass" command and
- in response to a "stat" command. This causes some pop clients to
- report that there are more messages than there really are, which leads
- to confused users.
-
- At the end of this message is an example of a telnet to port 110,
- followed by a cat -v of the maildrop and an od -h of the .map file.
-
- Does anyone know if there's a fix for this? I'd rather not reinvent the
- wheel if someone has fixed it already.
-
-
- Thanks,
-
- Mike Iglesias Internet: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu
- University of California, Irvine BITNET: iglesias@uci
- Office of Academic Computing uucp: ...!ucbvax!ucivax!iglesias
- Distributed Computing Support phone: (714) 856-6926
-
-
- Example:
-
- Script started on Mon Jul 27 22:22:34 1992
- orion# telnet orion 110
- Trying 128.200.15.20 ...
- Connected to orion.oac.uci.edu.
- Escape character is '^]'.
- +OK orion.oac.uci.edu POP server ready (Comments to: PostMaster@orion.oac.uci.edu)
- user test2
- +OK password required for test2
- pass *******
- +OK maildrop has 3 messages (739 octets)
- stat
- +OK 3 739
- quit
- +OK orion.oac.uci.edu POP server signing off (3 messages, 739 octets left)
- Connection closed by foreign host.
-
- orion# cat -v test2
- ^A^A^A^A
- Received: from localhost by orion.oac.uci.edu with SMTP id AA09415
- (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for <test2@orion.oac.uci.edu>); Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:14:49 -0700
- Message-Id: <199207280514.AA09415@orion.oac.uci.edu>
- To: test2@orion.oac.uci.edu
- Subject: a test #1
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 22:14:49 -0700
- From: Mike Iglesias <iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu>
-
- this is a test message
- ^A^A^A^A
- ^A^A^A^A
- Received: from localhost by orion.oac.uci.edu with SMTP id AA09427
- (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for <test2@orion.oac.uci.edu>); Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:15:12 -0700
- Message-Id: <199207280515.AA09427@orion.oac.uci.edu>
- To: test2@orion.oac.uci.edu
- Subject: a test #2
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 22:15:11 -0700
- From: Mike Iglesias <iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu>
-
- another tes message
- ^A^A^A^A
-
- orion# od -h .test2.map
- 0000000 0000 0002 0000 0003 0000 0000 0000 02df
- 0000020 0000 0000 0000 0170 0000 0005 0000 016c
- 0000040 0000 0000 0000 016d 0000 0176 0000 02da
- 0000060
- orion# ^Dexit
-
- script done on Mon Jul 27 22:23:17 1992
-