On 30 Mar 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Matt Simerson writes:
> >
> > I just installed the qmail-popbull patches on a qmail 1.03 install and am
> > getting duplicate messags, one for every time a user checks their email.
> > I checked into it and the .timestamp file for their account isn't updting.
> > I have since worked around the problems like this "rm `ls
> > /usr/home/*/.timestamp`.
>
> I'd rather you fixed the problem rather than working around it.
Me too! But last night (my first time using it) when a half dozen
I-check-my-email-every-minute users called to inform me they were getting
lots of copies of the same message I had to do something. I did determine
that the .timestamp file is not having getting it's
> I'm
> curious what the matter could be. It's working here for me.
I don't doubt that it's working for you, but there's something different
between us. I'll do whatever you need to help out but I'm not a
programmer. Well, I used to write in basic and know some Perl and
Applescript but that would hardly entitle me to even amatuer programmer
status.
As I read the popbull patch, it appears that this is where you check the
date on the the .timestamp file:
+ if (stat(".timestamp", &st) == -1) ts_date = 0;
+ else ts_date = st.st_mtime;
+ fd = open_trunc(".timestamp");
+ close (fd);
Now, for some reason or another, it's not actually modifying the date when
I check my mail via a POP session. I thought maybe it could be because the
$HOME directories are NFS mounted so I enabled pop3d on the NFS server and
tried it there but I get the same result.
Here's my config:
BSDI 4.0.1
Qmail 1.3 with rbl-diffs and popbull-diffs.
rblsmtpd 0.70
ucspi-tcp 0.80
I invoke qmail with the following commands:
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -uXXXX -gXXX 0 smtp \
/usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -b -t2 -r dul.maps.vix.com \
/usr/local/bin/rblsmtpd -b -t2 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd &
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \
dns.michweb.net /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popbull
/var/spool/bulletins /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &
TIA,
Matt
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