On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:09:36AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote:
> In *theory* and in the worst case, I think that in server mode lost
> mail could result in some combination of circumstances, like a user
> reading mail with a carelessly implemented shell mail client, plus
> using POP at the same time, plus mail arrives during the POP session.
Ugh.
I just got confirmation of this; it's no theory. One of our tech
support people was using sudo + pine to try to fix a user's spool file,
to try to help them get rid of a bad attachment they couldn't download,
the user POPped their mail, new mail came in, pine resynced, and *pow*
they ended up with no spool file and a corrupted temporary file. We'll
have to lay out some new procedures for support to use to avoid this; I
just hadn't thought of this situation.
I hate pine.
-- Clifton
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