On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 12:02:32AM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> really work, the mailclient should check pop mail as often as possible.
PLEEEEEEEEEZ ... be careful with that.
We have customers that have a leased line but we manage their Mailboxes (POP3).
Sometimes they receive a "really big" Mail (e.g. 40 MB).
To transfer the file takes longer than the "check interval".
There is a nasty bug in some implementations of browsers.
Looks like they have a timed interupt which causes them to force a
check for new mail. What happens is that the client is in the middle of
fetching the file, the interupt arrives, the transfer is killed the check for
new mail is made and the transfer for the big file is immediately
restarted from the beginning. This way they can NEVER get the whole file
and are transferring and transferring and transferring and ...
:-((((
\Maex
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