[Riscosnet-users] Fw: POPstar problems

[Darren S. <ds...@yo...>]

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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:59:48 +0100
From: Jeremy C B Nicoll <je...@bl...>
To: Darren Salt <ds...@yo...>
Subject: POPstar  problems

I've been using !POPstar 2.06-ds.5 under VRPC as part of my migration of
email etc from RPC/Pluto to laptop/Gemini (allowing me to collect mail on
the laptop then move the files to the RPC and read/answer some of it from
that machine).

Mostly it seems ok but every so often the POPstar log file shows an
unexpected response to a DELE command.  In all but one case there's nothing
on the following line (assuming it is meant to be the unexpected response). 
For example:

26 Jan 00:17:56 060 Fetched 40 messages for
win...@po..., synchronising with server
26 Jan 00:18:06 060 Fetched 80 messages for
win...@po..., synchronising with server
26 Jan 00:18:16 060 Fetched 120 messages for
win...@po..., synchronising with server
26 Jan 00:18:29 060 Fetched 160 messages for
win...@po..., synchronising with server
26 Jan 00:18:42 030 Unexpected response to DELE command
26 Jan 00:18:42 030 
26 Jan 00:18:42 060 Fetched 198 messages for
win...@po...



30 Jan 14:01:46 060 Fetched 40 messages for jer...@po...,
synchronising with server
30 Jan 14:01:48 030 Unexpected response to DELE command
30 Jan 14:01:48 030 
30 Jan 14:01:48 060 Fetched 64 messages for jer...@po...



04 Feb 00:25:14 060 Fetched 12 messages for jer...@po...
04 Feb 00:25:20 030 Unexpected response to DELE command
04 Feb 00:25:20 030 .
04 Feb 00:25:20 060 Fetched 1 messages for
win...@po...
04 Feb 00:25:46 060 Fetched 10 messages for
win...@po...
04 Feb 00:42:20 060 Fetched 1 messages for ang...@po...
05 Feb 00:24:37 060 Fetched 40 messages for jer...@po...,
synchronising with server
05 Feb 00:24:39 030 Unexpected response to DELE command
05 Feb 00:24:39 030 
05 Feb 00:24:39 060 Fetched 48 messages for jer...@po...
05 Feb 00:25:09 060 Fetched 12 messages for jer...@po...


Is there anything I can do to collect more info, eg changing a syslog
option?

I know (from experiments with a much modified copy of AntiSpam that I wrote
for use on my RPC under RO 3.70) that socket handling doesn't work quite the
same way under RO 4.39 and/or VRPC as it did on the older machine.  Eg under
VRPC I needed to close sockets explicitly in places where previously it
wasn't needed, and some of the return-code checking changed because socket
calls that worked returned non-zero (non-error) return codes where iirc
under ro 3.70 they didn't return any status info.  And in the logging my
app's doing I see many instances of "would block" status coming back from
calls that do eventually work if one waits long enough (or retries them? - I
can't quite remember).  I wouldn't be surprised though if my code is poor
since it was based on someone-else's understanding of sockets...

Anyway I wonder if you know if anyone else is using this version of POPstar
under VRPC and if anyone else ha similar problems?


Also, I've got several users/accounts defined but have to pick them off the
Fetch-> menu one by one manually - just clicking on the fetch entry in the
main menu doesn't seem to process them one by one as I think I thought it
might do. Is there some option I have set wrongly?



-- 
Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

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| Darren Salt    | d @ youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | nr. Ashington, | Toon
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