Added information. If the user has received no mail when I look at the mail spool file it has a filesize of zero. If they have received mail when I look at their mail spool it has 1956 ^@ on the first line of the file with the first "From ...." on the same line.
Strange... I think I might be having a strange filelocking problem... but everything is using the proper locking. Thanks, Brian -----Original Message----- From: Brian L. MacDonald [mailto:blm@;nauticom.net] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:56 AM To: Subscribers of Qpopper Subject: RE: Stats log and 35 octets remaining with 0 messages Hello, Sorry, I meant to mention that before. If I do a ls -l on the file it has a filesize of 0. If edited with vi, it also shows no data in the file. Very strange... for most users it does not appear to cause a problem. It was just that for the users that had corrupted mail spools they had all had this as the last successful session. I have since had corruptions without this log entry. Still, a strange entry. Thanks, Brian -----Original Message----- From: Simon Byrnand [mailto:simon@;igrin.co.nz] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 4:16 PM To: Subscribers of Qpopper Subject: Re: Stats log and 35 octets remaining with 0 messages At 11:18 30/10/02 -0500, Brian L. MacDonald wrote: >Hello, > >We are attempting to trouble-shoot some problems with corruption of mail >spool files and have come across the following log entry. In the course of >today we have seen 50 or so of these messages. All of the users that have >had corruption of their mail spool have had a log entry like this on their >last successful popper session. > >Oct 30 11:12:39 pop01 popper[47388]: Stats: <user> 1 569 0 35 <fqnd> <ip> > >where > <user> is the customer's username > <fqdn> is the full DNS name for the ip of the customer > <ip> is the ip of the customer > >Has anyone seen this before or know how there can be 35 octets remaining but >0 messages? Hi Brian, I havn't seen this problem before, but did you look at one of these spool files with 35 bytes still in it to see what was there ? That may provide a clue as to the problem... Regards, Simon
