At 13:39 19/09/02 +0000, Jannetta S Lewis wrote: >Does anybody perhaps have a script that I can run as a cronjob for >removing stale .user.pop files. I am forever battling to get my email down >just to realise that the .user.pop file was left behind when a previoud >download was interrupted.
You should never have to manually delete a .pop file - if you do, something is seriously wrong. Interrupting a download will not cause a stale .pop file - after qpopper realises the connection is lost (which could take up to 10 minutes or so depending on your OS's tcp timeout and retry settings) it will exit and the .pop file is removed. The only way a stale .pop file would be left behind indefinately is if the popper process itself crashed, or was forcibly (-9) killed, or the operating system crashed. And you do realise that the .pop file contains all the messages that were in the users mailbox at the time they were popping it, and that forcibly deleting it (especially if the popper process that created it is still alive) is a sure way to lose/corrupt messages... Regards, Simon
