From: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: POP3 fragile?
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 01:59:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3vfu258gb.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87adbfmjx9.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (Florian Weimer's message of "Wed, 16 Jul 2003 01:47:46 +0200")
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> Both Gnus and qpopper do not rollback a POP3 transaction which
> completes abnormally.
So ditch qpopper.
Your POP3 grinder mustn't commit DELE before QUIT in the first place, so
there's no need to unroll anything (if the POP3 server stores the DELE
on disk, outside the swap area, the server is BBD, broken by design.)
qpopper hasn't a very clean security record, so...
> Obviously, there is plenty oppertunity for mail loss, and if I fix the
> server side, dupes.
...there may be opportunities to have some fun as well. But I am
preaching to the choir, so I'll quit for now.
--
Matthias Andree
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-16 23:59 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
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 [this message]
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