Yes, in fact, the first time we used pop-bull to test the "retraction"
feature, we noticed this.
I was going to email you about it, but we've been testing some other
stuff, and it got put on the back burner.
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
> I think I've found a race condition in qmail-popbull. If you delete a
> bulletin just after qmail-popbull has run, but before the user has
> started to download that message, qmail-pop3d says "-ERR unable to
> open that message". If you delete a bulletin just after qmail-popbull
> has run, but the user doesn't get a chance to download the message,
> qmail-pop3d will leave that symlink lying around forever.
>
> So, to see if this is more than a theory, could people running
> qmail-popbull check to see if they have dangling symlinks in their
> user's directories?
>
> The fix, if necessary, is for qmail-pop3d to remove dangling symlinks
> when it finds them.
>
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