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From: da@cs.brown.edu (David Ascher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: bug in berkeley "popper" program
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Date: 7 Mar 91 13:52:57 GMT
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This isn't particularly mac relevant, but lots of readers of this
newsgroup would probably like to hear about it.

If you don't use Eudora or some other POP3 client, and if you don't
use popper as your POP3 server, you probably should skip to the next
article... 

Ok, now that i have the interested parties only...

The Berkeley popper server is a great piece of software, simple, well
written, etc.  BUT, there appears to be a bug which could be a real
problem.  When downloading a set of messages from the Unix server to
the Mac, if for some reason or other the TCP connection dies, the unix
server loses all the mail that was in the user's mailbox.  This can be
replicated with a simple telnet session, so it's not a Eudora problem
at all.  If anyone has any ideas on how to modify the server to solve
this problem, please let it be known -- there are lots of users out
there who will not be happy to lose all their incoming mail because of
a network problem or a power failure...

--david ascher
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