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qpopper-request | 1 Mar 2005 09:01
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Netlink Tech | 2 Mar 2005 19:44
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error flushing output to client

Hello,

Is this still active?

Trying to find info on 'error flushing output to client' errors with 
qpopper 4.05, Linux, etc.

Most of problems are slow connections and/or large messages and/or large 
number of messages.

What is the solution to not have these problems.

OR what is a suitable replacement for qpopper?

Tried cucipop, but I have a number of users that use PINE to read e-mail, 
which causes problems with UIDL and messages appearing as new (another 
copy downloaded) to Outlook Express.

Thanks,
Curt
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Netlink Tech | 3 Mar 2005 13:40
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Re: error flushing output to client

I am using enable-chunky-writes, enable-hash-spool=2, 
enable-temp-drop-dir, enable-standalone.
The temp drop is not on a seperate partition right now, but I can try that too.
Thnx
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Tim Villa wrote:

> Try enable-chunky-writes, and perhaps having the temp drop folder residing 
> on a separate partition from your mail spools.  Both will address 
> performance issues - the first for the link, the second for the server disk IO.
> 
> At 02:44 2005/03/03, Netlink Tech wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >Is this still active?
> >
> >Trying to find info on 'error flushing output to client' errors with
> >qpopper 4.05, Linux, etc.
> >
> >Most of problems are slow connections and/or large messages and/or large
> >number of messages.
> >
> >What is the solution to not have these problems.
> >
> >OR what is a suitable replacement for qpopper?
> >
> >Tried cucipop, but I have a number of users that use PINE to read e-mail,
> >which causes problems with UIDL and messages appearing as new (another
> >copy downloaded) to Outlook Express.
> >
> >Thanks,
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Tim Villa | 3 Mar 2005 04:22
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Re: error flushing output to client

Try enable-chunky-writes, and perhaps having the temp drop folder residing 
on a separate partition from your mail spools.  Both will address 
performance issues - the first for the link, the second for the server disk IO.

At 02:44 2005/03/03, Netlink Tech wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Is this still active?
>
>Trying to find info on 'error flushing output to client' errors with
>qpopper 4.05, Linux, etc.
>
>Most of problems are slow connections and/or large messages and/or large
>number of messages.
>
>What is the solution to not have these problems.
>
>OR what is a suitable replacement for qpopper?
>
>Tried cucipop, but I have a number of users that use PINE to read e-mail,
>which causes problems with UIDL and messages appearing as new (another
>copy downloaded) to Outlook Express.
>
>Thanks,
>Curt

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The University of Western Australia CRICOS provider number 00126G
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Joe Maimon | 23 Mar 2005 19:57

Re: patch submission?

> Hello ...
>
> I have patched our installation of Qpopper-4.0b3 in an attempt to get
> some of the benefit that's available in the "server" mode of that
> version of the POP server, without needing to use "server" mode.
>
> What I'm wondering is, is this an appropriate place to submit that
> patch?  Are the Qpopper developpers known to use this mailing list?
> Are other people interested in my patch?
>
Yes

Thanks.
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Sylvain Robitaille | 23 Mar 2005 19:41
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patch submission?

Hello ...

I have patched our installation of Qpopper-4.0b3 in an attempt to get
some of the benefit that's available in the "server" mode of that
version of the POP server, without needing to use "server" mode.

What I'm wondering is, is this an appropriate place to submit that
patch?  Are the Qpopper developpers known to use this mailing list?
Are other people interested in my patch?

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Sylvain Robitaille | 23 Mar 2005 23:27
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Re: patch submission?

Earlier, I wrote:

> What I'm wondering is, is this an appropriate place to submit that
> patch?  Are the Qpopper developpers known to use this mailing list?
> Are other people interested in my patch?

Joe Maimon replied:

> Yes

Ok, so here goes ...

Appended below my signature is what actually amounts to two separate
patches against Qpopper-4.0.6b3: The first to reduce the amount of mail
spool copying that takes place in "normal" (non-server) mode, and the
second to have the POP server update the system "lastlog" file when the
user is authenticated.

For the first patch, pop_dropcopy.c and pop_updt.c are changed as
follows:

  In pop_dropcopy.c, link the mail spool to the temp spool, acquire a
  lock on the mail spool, unlink and recreate the mail spool, and release
  the lock.  If the link fails, (either because the temp spool is on a
  different file system than the mail spool, or because the temp spool
  already exists), fall back to the original code that copies the mail
  spool into the temp spool.

  In pop_updt.c, if no updates are pending (no messages were read,
  requiring Status: or X-UIDL: header updates, and no no messages were
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Clifton Royston | 23 Mar 2005 23:45
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Re: patch submission?

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:27:13PM -0500, Sylvain Robitaille wrote:
> Earlier, I wrote:
> 
> > What I'm wondering is, is this an appropriate place to submit that
> > patch?  Are the Qpopper developpers known to use this mailing list?
> > Are other people interested in my patch?
> 
> 
> Joe Maimon replied:
> 
> > Yes
> 
...
> For the first patch, pop_dropcopy.c and pop_updt.c are changed as
> follows:
> 
>   In pop_dropcopy.c, link the mail spool to the temp spool, acquire a
>   lock on the mail spool, unlink and recreate the mail spool, and release
>   the lock.  If the link fails, (either because the temp spool is on a
>   different file system than the mail spool, or because the temp spool
>   already exists), fall back to the original code that copies the mail
>   spool into the temp spool.
> 
>   In pop_updt.c, if no updates are pending (no messages were read,
>   requiring Status: or X-UIDL: header updates, and no no messages were
>   marked to be deleted), after the lock has been acquired on the mail
>   spool, and any new messages have been appended to the temp spool,
>   rename the temp spool to mail spool (overwriting the existing mail
>   spool whose contents have already been copied), rather than copying
>   the contents back.
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Greg Earle | 24 Mar 2005 00:14
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Re: patch submission?

On Mar 23, 2005, at 2:27 PM, Sylvain Robitaille wrote:
> Appended below my signature is what actually amounts to two separate
> patches against Qpopper-4.0.6b3: The first to reduce the amount of mail
> spool copying that takes place in "normal" (non-server) mode, and the
> second to have the POP server update the system "lastlog" file when the
> user is authenticated.

Jeez.  Where were you with this patch a year ago, when I needed it?  :-P

(I've been migrating people off of an old Sun SPARCserver 20/71 mail 
server
  running Qpopper 4.0.5 to a SunFire V210.  Most of the people with big
  spool files - that were killing the SS20 - have been moved to the new
  V210 already, so my need for this isn't anywhere near what it was a
  year ago.  Thanks anyway for sending it in though ... )

	- Greg
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Alan W. Rateliff, II | 24 Mar 2005 22:45

poppassd (epass) status?

Has anyone done any more work on the poppassd daemon?  I'm having issues
with it talking to /usr/bin/passwd on Solaris 8 and wondered if anything had
been done beyond what exists in the QPopper 4.0.5 source.

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