[tpop3d-discuss]QUIT after deleting emails

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 04:16:08PM +0200, Jarek Woloszyn wrote:
> On pon, 04 pa? 2004, Mohamed Badri wrote:
> 
> > after deleting 700 emails in a box, and send a QUIT 
> > the pop3 client closes the connection without waiting for the qui reply.
> > The server didn't delete mails from the box ( /var/spool/mail/$user )
> > because it exist directly when the socket connection is closed.
> > 
> > Is it a bug or Where can i modify the server to delete mails after the quit
> > command despite of connection close.
> 
> This bug is known as ,,Microsoft Outlook bug''.
> 
> The workaround can be found here:
> http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/SOURCES/tpop3d-netloop.patch?rev=1.1

ok, I've bowed to the inevitable and stuck this in CVS,
with an option (no-commit-on-early-close) to restore the
previous (more correct) behaviour.

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