Re: POP3 fragile?

[Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>]

* Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>  on Tue, 15 Jul 2003
| 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').

Positive.  I wrote it, after all :).

I checked; unwind-protect does not mask C-g.  If you press C-g while inside
pop3-movemail before pop3-quit then pop3-quit will not be evaluated and
QUIT will not be sent.  pop3-quit will also not be reached if the server
reports an error during the retrieval process (returns a -ERR code).
Either of these conditions will force a halt.  There will almost certainly
be a message sitting in the retr process buffer or the crashbox staging
buffer, but if so then the message will not be marked for deletion and
should remain on the server.  All previous messages will be in the
crashbox.

All of this applies to stock pop3.el.  I cannot say about the FSF or XEmacs
versions; I don't understand most of the changes in those two forks.

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