On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 05:11:02PM +0300, Spiros Ioannou wrote:
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>
> Clifton Royston wrote:
> > This is not a bad idea; however, you should be aware that AFAIK
> >never-documented (but customary) behavior for mail delivery allows the
> >dot-lock to be broken after 5 minutes or some similar interval. This
> >could happen if a user is popping a large mailspool over a dialup
> >connection. Assuming you patched carefully, this won't worsen
> > problems, because qpopper can already deal with this; it just means
>
> yes, we take care of that with an alarm.. just search for the string "ntua"
> for the new functionality.
>
> >that in the quota-reached case you could still have the same result.
>
> why? the spool file will not grow while the tmp file is been processed.
> when the quota is been reached, no more mail will come to the spool and the
> user can successfully delete mail using pop.
I meant if you did not deal with the lock expiring; as it sounds like
you do, via stroking the lock on an alarm, then it's all good.
You would just need to be sure when using this that the mail server
LDA handles temporary delivery failures due to timeouts correctly, by
requeueing it for a later attempt on that mailbox.
-- Clifton
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