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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!news.voicenet.com!news From: The Notorious B.S.D. (The Notorious B.S.D.) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: timeout on popper? Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1996 08:39:36 GMT Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4cnm6o$qol@news.voicenet.com> References: <4cj1hj$2oa@news.cityscape.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: philly239.voicenet.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55 rpoel@infohighway.co.uk wrote: >hi users are trying to collect there mail and for other reasons (no >fault of the server) there machines may crash during a popper session, >and this leaves the popper session running and so stops them from >popping in again until the old popper process is killed. >Is ther any way of either setting a timeout or maying popper kill >itslef when it losses the connection? >Rich sure, hack it up.