From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28299 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Hilborne Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: missing POP3 mail Date: 17 Dec 1999 10:49:49 +0000 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <99Dec14.120926est.115246@gateway.intersys.com> <99Dec14.153841est.115251@gateway.intersys.com> <99Dec15.104725est.115250@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 1035165173 29155 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:52:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:52:53 +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 E96A0D051E for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:03:14 -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 IAB11658; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 08:02:56 -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 08:03:01 -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 IAA23378 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 3A988D051E for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:02:28 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from amh by sapphire.noc.gxn.net with local (Exim 2.05 #2) id 11yuxJ-0003qx-00; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:49:49 +0000 Original-To: Stainless Steel Rat In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:41:16 -0500" Original-Lines: 22 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:28299 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28299 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > * Andrew Hilborne on Wed, 15 Dec 1999 > | 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. > > Well, like I said, if qpopper has the drop locked as you described, there > is nothing pop3.el or any POP client can do to it. This is not the issue. The issue is my suspicion that pop3.el has failed in its duties (the overriding one being *never* to lose mail) in the face of this behaviour on the part of qpopper, and possibly unexpected behaviour on my own part. Anyway, I can't prove any of this at this time, and clearly noone else knows anything definitive about such a problem. So I'm going to shut up, until I have time to try to reproduce it. -- Andrew Hilborne