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From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes)
Subject: Re: Setting POP on FreeBSD
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Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 03:17:49 GMT
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Richard E. Nickle <rick@vox.trystero.com> reported:
> POP doesn't know how to delete messages properly.  I hacked on it for
> some time and managed to fix some cases, but I haven't fixed them all
> yet (I sorta gave up for the time being).

Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: Are you sure of this?  Are you sure you're not using MH's POP support
: without the -truncate flag to inc?  I use pop almost every day and it
: truncates the mailbox just fine!


Telnet to the pop server manually, delete a message in the middle, and
quit.  Check the mailbox to see if the message has been deleted.  (Ain't
"chatty" protocols wunnerful?)  It is always important to isolate client
vs. server bugs in client-server systems.  ;^)

I've been working with a recent version of popper on FreeBSD 1.1, and now
with the "qpop" package for FreeBSD 2.0 from the CD-ROM, and have not
encountered this problem at all.

	Wes Peters