On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Doug Ledford wrote:
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> > > The URL is ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.tar.Z
...
> > It works fine, make sure you have the current one though, the older one
> > asked the right way gives out root shells
>
> Even the latest one isn't perfect. The POP3 server included in this will
> cause Netscape to generate "POP3 server error" messages when downloading
> large emails (400K is usually large enough to cause the error). The qpopper
> daemon does not exhibit this problem. I haven't looked into why, I just
> know that it does.
Thanks to both Alan and Doug for the information! It's nice to get
information from a developer AND an experienced user of the networking
code! I've learned a lot just by reading postings from both of you.
Doug - I haven't noticed any problems with the toolkit's POP3 daemon, but
we haven't had any 400K messages, either! If I start seeing POP3 server
errors, I'll certainly try qpopper. Hopefully, I can ditch POP3 when our
web browsers support IMAP4.
Alan - First, thanks for your work on the Linux networking code! In your
reply, I presume that you were referring to the bug in the IMAP toolkit
that was announced on the linux-alert mailing list in April. Actually,
that's where I heard that the beast was available, so I downloaded the
fixed version. The imap.tar.Z on the ftp site is a symbolic link to the
latest release, so, bugs aside, it should be safe from that security hole.
DISCLAIMER: The comments above are my own and may not represent the views
of my employer.
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