On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 06:17:49PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote:
> Now the problem:
>
> I started a pop session, with my maildir emtpy:
> telnet host 110, user xyz, pass abc
> list -> 0
> Then I sent me a message which got placed in my
> Maildir/new...
>
> list-> 0 _still_
>
> I waited several seconds and tried again, and it was
> still 0... When I finished the pop3 session and started
> a new one, I had no problem seeing and reading the
> message.
>
> This is under Linux, 2.2.17-pre (Debian 2.2 default
> kernel).
>
> Am I bitten by Linux metadata semantics? Does qmail-pop3d
> scan the mailbox only on login or at (long) fixed intervals?
Nope you're being bitten by the way the pop daemon works. It only
scans for mail on startup, not every time you issue a command
to it.
That's normal behaviour for the majority of pop servers (I can't
speak for them all of course). Clients re-connect rather than stay
connected so it's not a real-world problem.
Regards.
