From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53468 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: POP3 fragile? Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 02:08:04 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87oezvl4ez.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> References: <8765m5eykf.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87k7akgk8b.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87isq3ecsn.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87wuejcvlo.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 1058314061 7117 80.91.224.249 (16 Jul 2003 00:07:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:07:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "(ding)" Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2013@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jul 16 02:07:39 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 19cZpL-0001pL-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 02:07:23 +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 19cZq9-0005Dl-00; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:08:13 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19cZq2-0005Df-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:08:06 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 19694 invoked by alias); 16 Jul 2003 00:08:06 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19688 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2003 00:08:06 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ext1.enyo.de) (213.178.169.5) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 16 Jul 2003 00:08:06 -0000 Original-Received: from host-212-9-163-13.dial.netic.de ([212.9.163.13] helo=mail.enyo.de) by ext1.enyo.de with asmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19cZq0-000ODu-Tw; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 02:08:05 +0200 Original-Received: from [212.9.189.171] (helo=deneb.enyo.de) by mail.enyo.de with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19cZq1-0005K7-Bs; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 02:08:05 +0200 Original-Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.20) id 19cZq0-00007j-DE; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 02:08:04 +0200 Original-To: Stainless Steel Rat Mail-Followup-To: Stainless Steel Rat , "(ding)" In-Reply-To: (Stainless Steel Rat's message of "Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:56:54 -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:53468 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53468 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > * Florian Weimer on Tue, 15 Jul 2003 > | Does unwind-protect catch C-g? > > Catch as in "mask the interrupt"? I believe not. > Even if it does, the worst that can happen with stock pop3.el is that > you'll have a bunch of stuff in the crashbox and copies of those messages > on the server. Are you sure? I read 'pop3-movemail' differently, IMHO "QUIT" is always sent to the server (look at the placement of the call to 'pop3-quit'). > Recent versions of qpopper can be configured to automatically issue DELE > commands after each successful RETR, to foil (ab)use of "leave mail on > server". But even so, messages are not purged unless the client explicitly > issues a QUIT command and closes the session gracefully. It may be that > you have a hacked POP server that expunges messages immediately after a > successful RETR. It's an qpopper 4.0.5, unpatched, unconfigured, running on FreeBSD.