From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53474 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthias Andree Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: POP3 fragile? Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 01:59:48 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <8765m5eykf.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87adbfmjx9.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 1058399952 3774 80.91.224.249 (16 Jul 2003 23:59:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:59:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M2019@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jul 17 01:59:07 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 19cwAs-0000y8-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 01:59:06 +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 19cwBg-0008F0-00; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:59:56 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19cwBc-0008Ev-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:59:52 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 66112 invoked by alias); 16 Jul 2003 23:59:52 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 66107 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2003 23:59:52 -0000 Original-Received: from pd9e1e593.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO m2a2.dyndns.org) (postfix@217.225.229.147) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 16 Jul 2003 23:59:52 -0000 Original-Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id D76A38E3F6; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 01:59:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87adbfmjx9.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (Florian Weimer's message of "Wed, 16 Jul 2003 01:47:46 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53474 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53474 Florian Weimer 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