At 11:38 AM -0400 9/11/00, Matt Garretson wrote:
> I've built Qpopper 3.0.2 (AIX 4.3.3) with --enable-auto-delete
> to make sure messages don't get left on the server after
> they've been downloaded. This seems to work fine. But I
> also want to set the EXPIRE option to 0, to inform the clients
> that this policy is in effect. So i tried running qpopper
> with the -eexpire=0 option. But when i do this, clients get
> the error message:
>
> EXPIRE must be NEVER (-1) when AUTO_DELETE defined.
>
> To me, this doesn't make sense. Am i correct in thinking
> that having EXPIRE set to -1 means the server is saying it
> doesn't ever delete the messages, and that having it be 0
> would make the most sense when auto-delete is enabled? Or
> am i looking at this backwards?
Yes, you are right, this does seem backwards.
