[tpop3d-discuss] tpop3d 1.5.1pre2 (with TLS support)

Chris Lightfoot chris at ex-parrot.com
Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:39:43 +0000


On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 08:18:51PM +0100, Angel Marin wrote:
> Ok, here we are.
> 
> Latest CVS version with the addition of if (count == 0) return 0; has worked
> stable for 3 hours. Then I have removed those lines and has been and
> switched to TLS config, ... 10 minutes and `connection reset by peer' was
> there. Then non TLS config again and stable until now (1.5 hours).
> 
> This time the `connection reset by peer' was slightly different -> the
> client apparently downloaded successfully this message 3 times before giving
> the error :? Don't know if it was downloaded fine or not, but the logs say
> it was downloaded.
> 
> The clients that gave the error this time were all with mailboxes with +500
> messages but downloading only latest ones.
> 
> As non TLS config seems stable for now I'll leave it running.
> 
> May the latest rev of maildir.c solved or mitigated this ?

I.e., TLS is currently not stable with Outlook 2000, but
non-TLS is? Or is this affecting other clients too?

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