On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 03:42:56PM -0700, Aaron Stone wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 18:17 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Using dbmail-pop3d, I've been having problems where email shows up > > out-of-sequence. I.e. I send an email with subject 1, wait for it to > > enter dbamil via LMTP; send an email with subject 2, and wait again; > > send an email with subject 3, and wait again; and then connect via > > POP3. The order for the three emails is not always consistent. > > > > Anyone seen this? > > Sure, it's just a matter of how/when the MTA does its delivery. > Transferring mail is certainly not a deterministic process ;-)
It's not the MTA. I'm watching the logs, and only sending one email at a time. I'm waiting for each message to get completely through the system before sending the next one, i.e. messages like so: dbmail/lmtpd[24920]: sort.c, sort_and_deliver: message id=405091, size=854 is inserted I test POP3 by manually telneting to localhost 110 and using user, pass, list, retr, and dele commands. Starting with an empty mailbox and sending a few emails in relatively rapid sequence, my emails are showing up in reverse order -- first the most recent, then the next older, etc. If I don't delete messages after I read them, then the messages from the prior session are showing up first and then the new ones, again with the older messages first within each group. If I wait awhile, they show up in a different order, sometimes sorted as I would expect them. What's happening is confusing. - Morty
