Re: qpopper weirdness
also sprach Nathan Ollerenshaw (on Thu, 05 Apr 2001 11:45:18AM +0100): > Yeah, qpopper does that. Try running it in "server" mode (I forget the > correct switch) or switch to cucipop which doesn't play around with the > mailbox so much. tried both, but with no success. so i ended up converting the site to Maildir storage and am now serving POP3 and IMAP with a combination of spop3d (solid POP3 daemon) and courier-imap. works fine. thanks for all your help! martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't.
Re: qpopper weirdness
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > hey, > i am using qpopper for pop3 access. one of my users hasn't been > reading mail in two weeks, and now her mailbox is 16Mb. that's not a > lot, no. however, she uses microcrap software, which is not succeeding > at downloading whereas a direct POP3 interaction with the server > through netcat revealed that it was working. however, whenever a user > logs in through POP, the following happens: Yeah, qpopper does that. Try running it in "server" mode (I forget the correct switch) or switch to cucipop which doesn't play around with the mailbox so much. Nathan. --- "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." - Frank Zappa
Re: qpopper weirdness
MaD dUCK wrote: > > also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Wed, 04 Apr 2001 03:03:39PM -0500): > > I never had any major problems with cucipop. There are two caveats: > > well, for the sake of fixing this promptly, i went ahead and replaced > qpopper with cucipop. however, now there is a 20 second delay between > the user entering the password in the POP3 session over netcat, and > the log line probably the fault of the mailbox format(?). i run a few qpopper servers but haven't used pop3 in years so i never noticed the delay, i just tested it on a dual p2-233 384MB system with qpopper 3.0.2 on a debian 2.1(slink) system and it took about 12 seconds to login with 4,870 messages in the inbox. i tried another login on my new ultra fast systems running cyrus imap and cyrus pop and with my inbox with 866 messages login was less then 1 second on a dual p3-800 512MB. cyrus is reaaly fast but its not friendly to local mail checking(e.g. with pine or mutt or whatever) you have to point your client to the IMAP or pop server and login to it(which pine and mutt can do but its not as convienent). and its more secure from sleepy typers like me(one time last year i was cleaning my home dir and typed rm -rf * on accident and wiped out years worth of non backed up email -- yes i don't backup..maybe someday i will ..) i highly reccomend cyrus though. its lightning fast. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: qpopper weirdness
also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Wed, 04 Apr 2001 03:03:39PM -0500): > I never had any major problems with cucipop. There are two caveats: well, for the sake of fixing this promptly, i went ahead and replaced qpopper with cucipop. however, now there is a 20 second delay between the user entering the password in the POP3 session over netcat, and the log line Apr 4 16:02:11 localhost cucipop[6561]: Opened madduck's mailbox on the server. but this time there is no copying going on. just precisely 20 seconds. makes me want to think it's PAM or something along the lines of authentication... no other log revealed anything though. ??? ps: > 1) cucipop always leaves a zombie process laying around. I haven't > dug through the code but this strikes me as odd. this is commented by the author in the INSTALL file where he claims that this is for performance purposes. whatever, i can deal... martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "it would be truly surprising if sound were not capable of suggesting colour, if colours could not give the idea of the melody, if sound and colour were not adequate to express ideas." -- claude debussy
