Re: POP3 problem !

[Bill Sangiwa <bsangiwa at twiga.com>]

i suggested cucipop, so that u can ran a standalone pop3 daemon and not
from inetd, as i want to separate the problem from inetd and pop3

Bill

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Jose Pereira Van-Dunem wrote:

> Hi Noah,
> 
> Thanks for your reply!
> I will try qpopper too!
> Not all pop3 connections are broken !
> Everytime i try run strace -p on the pid of the ipop3d i allways get the
> message: "No such process".
> 
> Some users happen to have a lot of mail in their spools like say 100MB
> or more but the problem also happen even when users have few emails in the
> maibox !
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jose
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sematimba Noah K <ksemat at wawa.eahd.or.ug>
> To: Bill Sangiwa <bsangiwa at twiga.com>
> Cc: Jose Pereira Van-Dunem <jvd at ebonet.net>; "AFNOG" <afnog at afnog.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 8:49 AM
> Subject: Re: POP3 problem !
> 
> 
> > It may be better for him to use qpopper. I have noticed that cucipop has a
> > tendency especially with fetchmail not to flush mail after it is popped
> > even when flush is specified explicitly. However a change to qpopper
> > solved this problem.
> > You could also try to run strace -p on the pid of the ipop3d until the
> > moment it drops the call and see what is happening.
> > Do the users happen to have a lot of mail in their spools like say 100MB
> > or more?
> > regards,
> > Noah.
> > >
> > > try cucipop (search on rpmfind.net) and see if it will make the
> difference
> > >
> > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Jose Pereira Van-Dunem wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Bill,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your reply !
> > > >
> > > > > Jose,
> > > > > make sure it is not a drop call (lost connection on telephone), that
> may
> > > > > be the cause.
> > > >
> > > > I think it is not a drop call problem because some leased line users
> are
> > > > having the same problem ! Please see:
> > > > Feb 21 09:04:35 leop ipop3d[10956]: Connection broken while reading
> line
> > > > user=nakvieira host=196.134.221.242
> > > >
> > > > Any idea ?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance!
> > > >
> > > > Jose
> > > >  ------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Jose Pereira Van-Dunem wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hello everybody,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > My operating system is RedHat  Linux 6.0 !
> > > > > > I am using the pop3 protocol !
> > > > > >
> > > > > > My /var/log/maillog file is reporting a lot of error/warning
> messages
> > > > like
> > > > > > the following ones:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Feb 21 17:46:38 mail ipop3d[29054]: Connection broken while
> reading line
> > > > > > user=doro host=196.138.122.80
> > > > > > Feb 21 18:36:35 mail ipop3d[32153]: Connection broken while
> reading line
> > > > > > user=alfredo host=196.138.122.12
> > > > > > Feb 21 19:31:23 mail ipop3d[32321]: Connection broken while
> reading line
> > > > > > user=beto host=196.138.122.18
> > > > > > Feb 21 21:56:21 mail ipop3d[34782]: Connection broken while
> reading line
> > > > > > user=nadia host=196.138.122.44
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Can you help me to stop it ?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks in advance !
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Jose
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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