>>>>> Regarding Re: mailagent and MH ; "Susan G. Kleinmann"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adds:
Susan> $ popclient -3 -P ~/.tiac pop1.tiac.net
Susan> QUALCOMM Pop server derived from UCB (version |214r3+TIAC|)
Susan> at mailserver1 starting.
Susan> 1 messages in folder
Susan> reading message 1...
Susan> $ scan last
Susan> 4955 08/20 Michael Meskes Re: Shadow vss PAM<<Patrick W
Susan> $ scan last
Susan> 4956 08/21 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] monitor info<<Hi Janice -- Yo
Susan> Notice that:
Susan> -- the popclient finished before I executed the 'scan'
Susan> command,
Susan> -- the first of the two "scan last" commands finished
Susan> before I executed the second.
Susan> -- the second "scan last" yielded a different result the
Susan> second time I invoked it.
Susan> This must certainly be a bug. I don't know if it is in
Susan> popclient, mailagent, or possibly MH.
Last time I checked, the popclient program simply retrieves each
message from the server and mails it, using the generic `mail'
program, to the user's local account. Then the MTA, such as sendmail
or smail, actually delivers the message, sending it to mailagent if
instructed to in the user's .forward file. The delay that you have
observed is the time required for the local MTA to deliver the
message.
--
Brian Mays
