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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: bug in berkeley "popper" program
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Date: 8 Mar 91 14:23:43 GMT
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In article <67594@brunix.UUCP> da@cs.brown.edu (David Ascher) writes:
>[Discussing popper]
>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.

This is a bit extreme.  *I* cannot replicate the problem using
telnet (and have never seen it using Eudora), so I can confidently
say that "if your network connection dies during a popper session,
you will lose your mail" is too sweeping a statement.

David, please tell us what version of popper you are using, and
what the recipe is for replicating the problem.  Only then is
anybody likely to give you suggestions for a fix.

(For the record, I'm running 1.7b4.  I logged into popper, did an
retr on a BIG message, and pulled the terminator from my ethernet
segment.  The transfer stopped (of course), popper exitted
(eventually), but the mail was left intact.)
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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