Hi,
One of our users claims to have "lost" email. After doing some
investigations with a backup of his mailbox, I noticed something
peculiar.
Pine, Elm, Frm, IMP (our IMAP interface) all showed 10 messages in
his inbox, but if I went:
telnet localhost 110
user username
pass password
it said there were only 2 messages!
I determined that for some reason, there was no LINEFEED between
the end of message #2 and the header of message #3 (Where
"From ..." is located), and so forth.
I realize that this is not qpopper's fault, since it's probably not
a standard format. Is there a way to make it work? Has anyone else
encountered this problem?
Alternatively, I'd like to treat the source of the problem. Never
before have I seen e-mails all of a sudden be strung together with no
linefeeds in between. I'm using exim, not sendmail. The other
programs that "may" have put the mailbox back together incorrectly
(from deleting a message) would be qpopper, imapd, or exim itself.
I'm not sure what the cause was. I can't reproduce the problem. If I
delete the 10th message with imapd or elm/pine, qpopper all of a
sudden sees 9 messages instead of 2 (ie, the mailbox was completely
reconstructed in the correct way).
I was using qpopper v2.53, but I upgraded to v3.12, hoping that would
solve the problem, but it didn't.
Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated!
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Michael J. Weller, M.Sc. office: (972) 235-7881 x.242
[EMAIL PROTECTED] cell: (214) 616-6340
Zyvex Corp. facsimile: (972) 235-7882
1321 N Plano evening: (214) 378-8431 (Dallas)
Richardson, TX 75081 icq: 6180540
