I have just spent another half hour trying to figure out why my pop3 log shows files to have been deleted but telnet (and Arachne the 2nd time) shows the files are still there. I haven't figured it out yet. Going in and giving the DELE directly with telnet removes the file, as always.
BUT in my struggles I have come up with an important question. The problems today originated with ANDY -- as has happened before -- and it happened with both the message he sent to "Life Raft", and THEN with a cc to this list ... so it was a chance contamination. I looked with my editor and with the MS DOS 5.0 edit.com and could not see a single spurious character in either file. Then I realized that the files telnet retreived were "a" files, strictly ASCII by default, just like the FTP setup was default "a" ... so a binary inclusion in the original file would be stripped out before I received it! HERE IS THE QUESTION: Is Arachne downloading mail in binary mode? Arachne is *not* using the same code as CUTE TelNet, because if it were doing so, the commands SENT to the mail server wouldn't show ... only what the server sent would; so Arachne has to be working differently than TelNet, and that *difference* is apparently where the problem lies. Yes, ANDY uses UNIX PINE to send mail, but I have no problems with mail received which is sent by Linux Pine ... so pine should not be the culprit. l.d. -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
