[tpop3d-discuss]Outlook duplicate messages

[Matthew Trent]

On Monday 24 May 2004 04:36 pm, Dragos Nitu wrote:
> OK, thanks. I didn't understand what the problem was about. I made another
> patch :). This one sure works.
>
> In case the connection is closed by the client, and QUIT command is still
> there, it does apply changes.
>
> Because I didn't have an Outlook 2000 to test this, I wrote my own client
> which doesn't wait for an answer to QUIT, and it works. Behaves just like
> Outlook.
>
> --- tpop3d-1.5.3/netloop.c.orig Mon Nov 24 21:58:28 2003
> +++ tpop3d-1.5.3/netloop.c      Tue May 25 01:08:39 2004
> @@ -463,7 +463,17 @@
>              /* We should now log the closure of the connection and ending
>               * of any authenticated session. */
>              if (c->a)
> +           {
> +               pop3command p;
> +               if((p = connection_parsecommand(c)))
> +                   if(p->cmd == QUIT)
> +                   {
> +                       mailbox curmbox;
> +                       curmbox=c->m;
> +                       (curmbox)->apply_changes(curmbox);
> +                   }
>                  log_print(LOG_INFO, _("connections_post_select: client %s:
> finished session for `%s' with %s"), c->idstr, c->a->user, c->a->auth);
> +           }
>              log_print(LOG_INFO, _("connections_post_select: client %s:
> disconnected; %d/%d bytes read/written"), c->idstr, c->nrd, c->nwr);
>
>  /*            remove_connection(c);*/

Ok, I've got the patch in place on my servers. So far so good. I'll ask some 
of the people who have chronic Outlook trouble to let me know if things 
improve.
-- 
Matt
Systems Administrator
Local Access Communications
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