Markus Stumpf writes:
> 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.
Oh, well that *certainly* wouldn't work with the proposed system,
which we're suggesting should block on the LIST command (e.g.) or
maybe ....
Oh. OH. OH!!! Hey! I know how this could actually be implemented
without huge amounts of hackery!! Instead of doing this:
qmail-popup checkpassword qmail-pop3d
do this:
qmail-popup checkpassword wait-for-new-mail qmail-pop3d
where wait-for-new-mail is a program that simply pauses waiting to
read that named pipe, which is written to by the suggested .qmail
file. And wait-for-new-mail could be something as simple as this:
#!/bin/sh
read <Maildir/.waiton
This reason this works is because qmail-pop3d prints the OK for the
password command. So, as long as the pop3 client is willing to wait
forever for the OK response (not a good assumption, I know), it'll
receive the new mail moments after it is delivered.
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