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From: Andrew Hilborne <andrew.hilborne@gxn.net>
Cc: "(ding)" <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: missing POP3 mail
Date: 15 Dec 1999 11:46:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ua3dt44eam.fsf@sapphire.noc.gxn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:32:28 -0500"

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> * Andrew Hilborne <andrew.hilborne@gxn.net>  on Tue, 14 Dec 1999
> | I have the list of message-ids for mail which was delivered to the box in the
> | relevant time interval, from the box administrators. Most of these have not
> | been delivered to me.
> 
> Have they looked around for stray files in the mail spool directory?  This
> does not sound like anything pop3.el could do unless the POP server also
> failed somehow.

Quite possibly. But I worked with this particular _instance_ of qpopper for
years, used by thousands of dial-up and other users, and we suffered no such
problems. This is in contrast to pop3d which we used before that, which was
horrible.

--
Andrew Hilborne



  reply	other threads:[~1999-12-15 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-12-14 16:49 Andrew Hilborne
1999-12-14 17:03 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-12-14 17:44   ` Andrew Hilborne
1999-12-14 20:32     ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-12-15 11:46       ` Andrew Hilborne [this message]
1999-12-15 15:41         ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-12-17 10:49           ` Andrew Hilborne
1999-12-21 20:47             ` Kai Großjohann
1999-12-21 21:16               ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-12-21 21:36                 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-12-21 22:13                   ` Stainless Steel Rat

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