[Please Cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] on any replies to this thread.] On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Buddha Buck wrote:
> I don't use pine or imap, but the school hosting my mailbox uses imap. > > The behavior I saw: > > Using POP to copy new mail to my workstation at work (running Eudora) > seemed to cause ipop3d to crash without properly cleaning up -- $MAIL.lock > still around, messages not marked as old, etc. Telnetting in, and mucking > around in $MAIL by hand revealed the messages preceeded by nulls. Elm read > the mailbox fine, but treated the messages preceeded by nulls as > continuations of the previous messages. Eudora, getting the messages from > POP3, also read the messages fine, but again with the broken messages > tacked on to the preceeding messages. Manually deleting the nulls wasn't a > reliable way to fix the problem. > Thanks for the description, I found it very useful. > My school uses imap, but I didn't -directly- invoke it in this process. It > may have been invoked by their mailer behind the scenes, though. > Not necessarily. However ipop3d and imapd both use the c-client library for all the mail handling routines. That's where the bug is so both would have been affected. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>