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

Jarek Woloszyn yossa at akra.net
Wed, 4 Feb 2004 20:56:24 +0100


On =B6ro, 04 lut 2004, Kevin Bonner wrote:

> > Does RFC say, that client must wait for the response? Client sends QU=
IT
> > and if everything was OK, the server should do its job.
>=20
> See section 6 (The UPDATE State) of RFC 1939.  The server will remove m=
essages=20
> marked as deleted _after_ it receives the QUIT command.  If the server=20
> receives the QUIT command, and the connection is closed before the clie=
nt=20
> receives the response, the messages should still be removed.

So that is a bug in tpop.

> - From previous emails, it looked like the QUIT command was sent by Loo=
kout=20
> 2002, but never reached the pop3 server.  Only commands that actually m=
ake it=20
> to the pop server should be acted on, IMO.

No. It's recieved by tpop ( when I switched it to read all the data from =
socket (even if the socket is closing).=20

--=20
Jarek Woloszyn