At 7:27 PM -0400 9/21/05, Bill Cole sent email containing: >At 7:04 AM -0700 9/21/05, Warren Michelsen imposed structure on a stream of >electrons, yielding: >>At 6:18 AM -0700 9/21/05, Alan Saul sent email containing: >>>My POP server stopped working at midnight. My client (Eudora) can't >>>connect to it, and the monitor window occasionally shows "System >>>Error -39". The log reads, for example: >> >>The mailbox file is corrupted. A -39 error is an end-of-file error, >>that is, the file system read operation reached the end of the file >>prematurely. There should be more file there but there isn't. > >I don't want this to sound harsh, but I think that's all wrong.
I stand corrected! I went back and looked through some of my old logs and I do indeed see -39 errors. > >Note that a TCP connection is usually treated as a flavor of 'file' (i.e. a >sequential stream of bytes) so when it ends unexpectedly, a -39 'unexpected >end of file' error code is appropriate. > >... >SIMS tried to send the greeting message to the just-opened connection, but >failed. > >... >-25010 is SIMS-ese for "dropped connection" >... >This looks like either a client problem or a badly hosed TCP/IP stack on the >server. If it is happening from more than one client machine, I think a reboot >of the server is in order. Thanks, Bill. One's never too old to learn. ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
