From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53457 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: POP3 fragile? Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:48:56 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87isq3ecsn.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> References: <8765m5eykf.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87k7akgk8b.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1058302182 11396 80.91.224.249 (15 Jul 2003 20:49:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:49:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2002@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jul 15 22:49:41 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19cWk0-0002xf-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:49:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19cWkR-00042p-00; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:50:07 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19cWkJ-00042f-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:49:59 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 10449 invoked by alias); 15 Jul 2003 20:49:59 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 10444 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2003 20:49:59 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ext1.enyo.de) (213.178.169.5) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 15 Jul 2003 20:49:59 -0000 Original-Received: from host-212-9-163-175.dial.netic.de ([212.9.163.175] helo=mail.enyo.de) by ext1.enyo.de with asmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19cWkD-000NTW-EA; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:49:53 +0200 Original-Received: from [212.9.189.171] (helo=deneb.enyo.de) by mail.enyo.de with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19cWjJ-00059t-Bv; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:48:57 +0200 Original-Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.20) id 19cWjI-0001mu-Fc; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:48:56 +0200 Original-To: Stainless Steel Rat In-Reply-To: (Stainless Steel Rat's message of "Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:58:31 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53457 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53457 Stainless Steel Rat 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.