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From: da@cs.brown.edu (David Ascher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: popper server
Message-ID: <DA.91Feb18124752@igor.cs.brown.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 91 17:47:52 GMT
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This isn't mac-centered, but does affect all the people on this
newsgroup who use UCB's "popper" as a POP3 server.

It appears that if the connexion between _popper_ and the client
(eudora, etc.) dies in the middle of retrieving a set of mail
messages, the server loses all the mail messages for that user.  

Scenario:
  User logs on to Eudora, "Checks for mail".  Say there are a hundred
messages in his/her mailbox, it takes a while to transfer.  At message
10, the mac crashes, the network goes down -- the connexion dies.
When s/he checks for mail with Eudora the next time, there are no mail
messages.  This is obviously a bug with popper.  Has anyone else
noticed it before?  Does anyone have a fix?

Thanks for any info.

--david ascher
--brown university CIS
--DASCHER@Brownvm.Brown.Edu
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