--On Wednesday, October 09, 2002 08:46:31 -0700 Mark Crispin 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The only safe behavior is for a client to issue a proper LOGOUT as
> opposed to dropping the connection.

As a user and server administrator I agree, but it's a fact of life that 
(at least here in Germany) many if not all ISPs regularly drop the IP 
connection. I guess the idea is to prevent you from being able to run a 
server, since the IP address changes.

Anyway, my private DSL connection is dropped twice per day. Mulberry does a 
decent if not perfect job of recovering from such dropped connections, but 
of course it can't send LOGOUT!

I think server authors might want to keep that in mind ...
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