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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: POP3 fragile?
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:48:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87isq3ecsn.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3d6gb4z1k.fsf@peorth.gweep.net> (Stainless Steel Rat's message of "Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:58:31 -0400")

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> The POP3 specifications state that the server must not process DELE
> marks if the connection closes (or drops) without the client issuing
> a QUIT command.  Your "lost" mail should still be on the server.

Hmm.  Perhaps the connection wasn't really stuck and the QUIT that C-g
triggered was actually transmitted to the server?

The mail in question was *not* on the server.  I'd peeked at the
mailbox in advance, and I know some of the messages which had been
discarded.

Maybe the SSH tunnel is causing the problems: something is stalled, I
press C-g, and the server assumes that the messages up to this point
have been sucessfully transmitted.  Actually, this *could* be the
problem if individual messages don't have to be acknowledged at the
POP layer.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-15 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-14 18:46 Florian Weimer
2003-07-14 22:50 ` Marcelo Toledo
2003-07-14 22:55 ` Xavier Maillard
2003-07-15 10:25   ` Florian Weimer
2003-07-15 13:15     ` Mike Woolley
2003-07-15 14:58     ` Stainless Steel Rat
2003-07-15 20:48       ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2003-07-15 21:07         ` Stainless Steel Rat
2003-07-15 21:45           ` Florian Weimer
2003-07-15 23:56             ` Stainless Steel Rat
2003-07-16  0:08               ` Florian Weimer
2003-07-16  3:38                 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2003-07-16  2:29     ` Marcelo Toledo
2003-07-15  8:03 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-07-15 21:47   ` Florian Weimer
2003-07-15 23:47 ` Florian Weimer
2003-07-16 23:59   ` Matthias Andree

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