[Dovecot] pop3 retr error

[Jens Laas]

(05.06.28 kl.03:52) Timo Sirainen skrev följande till Jens Laas:

> On 27.6.2005, at 10:46, Jens Laas wrote:
>
>> The bug is really strange since everything I can log/see about the 
>> conversion between dovecot and tbird suggests tbird has the bug.
>> BUT when I run tbird with other pop3 server it works.
>
> Well, maybe this is simply because many other servers ignore the problem? UW, 
> Courier and qmail-pop3d at least do. Then again Cyrus, popa3d and qpopper 
> give error message. Anyone wish to try to reproduce the problem with them?

We run qpopper here which works with tbird.
(evolution works with dovecot though :)

Packet split might be it. But I cant really understand how that would 
trigger this either.

>
> Anyway the simplest fix for Dovecot is to make it also ignore the error. 
> src/pop3/commands.c line 47 comment out the if (client->deleted) { ... } 
> block. Although that ignores a bit too many errors.. If the bug can be 
> reproduced with other servers I'll make up some workaround option which 
> ignores it only with DELE.
>

Not reproduced with qpopper atleast.
In case of work around it should check that it is the last message 
deleted. But .. it looks so ugly :-(

Jens

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