From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Steudten Subject: Re: Question about sendmail. Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 03:10:13 +0100 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4064E285.8020202@steudten.com> References: <16484.49463.398808.743577@cerise.nosuchdomain.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <16484.49463.398808.743577@cerise.nosuchdomain.co.uk> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Glynn Clements Cc: Tony Gogoi , linux-admin@vger.kernel.org That's true. However the imapd or popd delivered with Linux RH are only simple daemons. I use the qpopper which gives you a lot of configuration options, like flush the mail from the server after transfer, before and without a quit. I use this for modem dialin. Sometimes my client fetches the mails from the server (>5MB) and the transfer breaks. So all the mail are fetched again with the normal pop3d, but not with the qpopper daemon. Ok, there's a risk, but that's not the problem. > A concrete example: when mail is retrieved via POP3, and deleted from > the server, the server will only actually delete the messages upon > receipt of a QUIT command. If the client retrieves some messages, > marks them for deletion, then closes the connection without issuing a > QUIT command, the messages will be retained, and hence retrieved again > on the next attempt.