Quoting Rob Hines Jr. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> I am running qmail on a Solaris system, and have had nothing but good
> luck with it. I installed Mrs. Brisby's smtp_auth patch, and all is good
> delivering to homedir Mailboxes. I am having a problem though.
> Occasionally users will retrieve their mail to find one message appended
> to the end of the previous one. I am at a loss as to why this might
> happen.
Ahem, you forget something: what pop3 server are you using? Since
qmail-pop3d only reads Maildirs, then you're using something else.
Indeed, since we know that qmail-local does write correctly to
mbox-format, then that would probably preclude qmail from being the
problem. Hence, you're almost off-topic :-)
In an mbox-style mailbox, each email is seperated by a newline then
"From " -- so if you're really using qmail-local for delivery, then
your POP3 server is misbehaving. OTOH, if you'are using something
else for delivery, like procmail for instance, then it might not be
writing properly. Perhaps, also, the mailbox isn't properly being
locked while another process is reading it, which can result in
corrupt mailboxes--a good argument for Maildir delivery. Since it
would appear to be infrequent, then the latter seems likely. Anyway,
I'm just guessing.
In short, more info is needed!
Aaron
