From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28298 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Hilborne Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: missing POP3 mail Date: 15 Dec 1999 11:46:41 +0000 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <99Dec14.120926est.115246@gateway.intersys.com> <99Dec14.153841est.115251@gateway.intersys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165172 29146 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:52:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:52:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "(ding)" Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E3D2D051E for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:03:11 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAB11659; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 08:02:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 17 Dec 1999 08:03:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA23379 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 08:02:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sapphire.noc.gxn.net (sapphire.noc.gxn.net [194.143.161.5]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49192D051F for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:02:29 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from amh by sapphire.noc.gxn.net with local (Exim 2.05 #2) id 11yCtF-0003vO-00; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 11:46:41 +0000 Original-To: Stainless Steel Rat In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:32:28 -0500" Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) XEmacs/21.1 (Acadia) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28298 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28298 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > * Andrew Hilborne 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