[tpop3d-discuss] tpop3d-patch

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:30:17PM -0300, Davi Arnaut wrote:
> I have implemented a few things for tpop3d (tpop3d cvs):

Excellent. Some comments:

> fork_uid - uid to tpop3d fork as (will not run as root, useful for one user install, like for mysql)
> fork_gid - gid o tpop3d fork as
> auth-mysql-onlogin-delete will execute a delete query, for automatic cleaning of the user relay table,
>                                       only the last value will be keeped.



> I changed the mysql connection to loop, so if mysql connection fail, tpop3 will log that to syslog
> and keep trying to re-connect, but never die.

OK... that's a good idea, but I don't like the way that
you sleep in auth-mysql. I expect it would be better to
fail temporarily, and keep re-trying to connect to MySQL.
I'll have a more detailed look later.

> http://www.verdesmares.com/software.htm

Looks good. I will incorporate these. I should mention
that the CVS version of tpop3d is not yet `stable for
production use', though I believe that others are using it
successfully.

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