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.
With the old functionality when quota was exceeded and the spool was copied on
the tmp file, new mail could arrive and the total mail could be over the
quota; copying then the tmp file back to the spool would fail, leaving all the
old mail on the tmp file, and to the spool the new mail with some of the old
that could fit on the quotas.
-S
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Spiros Ioannou
Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Computer Science Division
Tel: +30-2107722491, +30-6973903808
