On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:44:42AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Jose Luis Painceira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Some days ago I found that qmail-pop3d doesn't show those messages whose mtime
> > is greater than now(). Is this a feature of the protocol??
>
> As in "a feature of the POP3 protocol"? No. The POP3 standard mandates
> nothing about the storage of mail; it doesn't assume that a message has
> file attributes, even, as the mail spool could theoretically be in a
> relational database or something stranger.
>
> It seems to be a widely acknowledged but minor bug in qmail-pop3d
> (discovered by Russ Nelson, perhaps?). It's an easily solved problem --
> just keep all your servers' clocks in sync with clockspeed or xntpd or
> similar.
I think it's a very weird bug, since it seems to be put in
deliberately. I have no clue why, however.
Interesting is that the only/other real qmail bug (wrong STAT output
after DELE) is in qmail-pop3d too...
Greetz, Peter
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