[Dovecot] Re: 0.99.10.5 release candidate

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jun 1 21:51:07 EEST 2004


On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 18:10, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > In that case, if this happens while a message is being downloaded, all the
> > POP3 server can do is drop the TCP connection, to prevent the client getting
> > a partial message.
> 
> I'll take bets as to what client recognizes EOF as "don't display/store
> this message" O:-)

Actually I think most POP3 clients would handle this correctly. Dying
TCP connections are quite common with dialups.

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