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

Chris Lightfoot chris at ex-parrot.com
Tue, 3 Feb 2004 19:22:19 +0000


On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:03:41AM -0800, Matthew Trent wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 February 2004 10:38 am, Jarek Woloszyn wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Ahh. I knew I wasn't crazy. That's why we see seemingly random duplicate 
> messages.

I note
    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317945
-- the problem described doesn't affect tpop3d -- you
don't need to send RETR and DELE commands in the same
session for it to work -- but they may have fixed the QUIT
thing too. It would be interesting to know whether the
patch they suggest resolves the issue.

> > Can you add a configuration option which will cause tpop to immediately
> > delete messages even if it's not rcf compatible?
> 
> It sucks not following the RFC's. Sometimes it comes to that, though... tpop3d 
> already doesn't follow the RFC's by default with timeout values, so it 
> shouldn't be a huge "moral" leap...

The problem with making such a change is that there are
probably cases where it will result in mail being lost.

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