Hmm...Okay, well, I'm using QPOP 3.0.2, I've even recompiled it a couple
times. When I look at the messages that are getting appended. There is a
normal header at the beginning, but at the end, the header of the next
message is prefixed with a '>' on the first line of the header. I'll see
if I can also ask someone associated with Qualcomm, but I have this setup
running on other systems without any problems (read exactly the same but
for hardware and the SMTP_AUTH patch).
The problematic system is:
Sun Ultra II Enterprise w/ dual 200mhz chips
1.2G RAM
20G SCSI storage
Solaris 8
qmail 1.03 w/ Mrs. Brisby's SMTP_AUTH patch, and checkpasswd
QPOP 3.0.2
Hope that helps. If I /have/ to, I'll go to Maildir, but I'd hate to have
to do that.
Please let me know.
Rob
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Aaron L. Meehan wrote:
> 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
>
