At 9:19 PM +0200 9/18/00, Michel Heirbaut wrote:
> High everybody,
>
> I recently replaced our University of Washington pop3 server wilth qpopper
> version 3.0.2
>
> Sometimes, two email messages are concatenated together, the second message
> "From " line replaced by ">From ".
If the messages are this way in the spool, it suggests a problem
with the delivery agent.
>
> I am using SunOS 5.7 on SUNW,Ultra-4 (450) so I tried to replace
> /bin/mail by
> /usr/lib/mail.local as local deliver agent (sendmail-8.9.3) as suggested in
> one of the FAQ.
>
> The problem is still there !
Do you mean the spool is unchanged, or do you mean that new
messages coming in have this problem? Changing the delivery agent
won't fix an already-corrupted spool, but should help prevent the
problem from happening again.
>
> Even if the Content-Length header is incorrect (too large) there shoud be
> another way of finding valid From message separator.
>
> Is there another workaround our anything in a future release ?
At this time Qpopper relies on the Content-Length header. There is
an open item to fall back on "From " scanning (from the beginning
of the message) if the header turns out to be incorrect, but this
has not been implemented yet.
> At this time I am afraid I 'll have to switch back to ipop3d
> which I don't like
> for other reasons.
You should be able to repair the affected spool. How often does
this occur for you?
