[tpop3d-discuss]tpop3d doesn't delete mails [ms outlook 2002]

[Jarek Woloszyn]

On wto, 03 lut 2004, Matthew Trent wrote:

> On Tuesday 03 February 2004 09:35 am, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 06:33:13PM +0100, Jarek Woloszyn wrote:
> > > I've just tried to run tpop3d on my server and have a weird problem.
> > > When somebody uses MS Outlook 2002 (from MS Office XP), tpop doesn't
> > > delete mails (sometimes).
> >
> > This is probably a failure to send a QUIT command properly
> > -- one is needed for the deletions to take place. But can
> > you try running tpop3d with the -v option so that it will
> > log the commands and responses.
> 
> That also partially explains the duplicate emails I've seen. Outlook clients 
> connect, retrieve, delete, and then timeout. Then, of course, the message is 
> downloaded again.

Hmm.. I've checked outlook's session with ethereal. Outlook sends quit
command, and after that disconnects. That's why sometimes tpop
doesn't recieve it.

Can you add a configuration option which will cause tpop to immediately
delete messages even if it's not rcf compatible?



-- 
Jarek Woloszyn