Re: Popper hanging, OSR506

From: Roberto Zini (rob_at_robnothere.com)
Date: 04/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:12:59 +0200

Stuart J. Browne wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I've got an OSR506 box of which we use for email in our office here. We
> have 30+ accounts, all of which work famously, except one.
>
> The account 'richard', when talking POP just hangs. Here's a conversation:
>
> +OK QPOP modified by SCO (version 3.0.2-scoR5) at promed.com.au starting.
> USER richard
> +OK Password required for richard.
> PASS ******
>
>
> It will proceed to sit there and say nothing, indefinately.
>
> I modified '/etc/inetd.conf' to have 'popper -d -s', but it seems that SCO
> didn't compile this popper with debugging enabled as it says absolutely
> nothing.
>
> I thought this might have something to do with an old account that was once
> on this machine's predecessor (and not being the one that transferred data
> on it, was unsure whether a retired psudo-account details were
> transferred), so I '/tcb/bin/unretire richard'. This did nothing. So I
> forcibly retired it, then un-retired it again, reset the password, still
> nothing.
>
> The only difference is that whilst retired, it correctly failed (admittadly
> with an invalid password failure).
>
> Any other funky OSR account things to look at to figure out why this is
> hanging on this user?
>
> bkx
>
> SCO:Unix::5.0.6Ga rs506a.Unix506.1.0a usb.Unix506.1.0a
> OSS642a.506.SCO.Unix.RTS
>
>

Stuart,

please switch to /usr/spool/mail and check for files starting with the
period character (eg, .nameoftheuser). If memory serves (but I'm unable
to check that on a live SCO system now), popper should create a copy of
a given user's mailbox using the "." + "name_of_the_user" scheme.

If something goes wrong during mail retrieval, the "dot" filename
remains around thus preventing popper from servicing other requests.

Another issue might be related to a corrupted mailbox but, from previous
posts, that should not be your case.

Just me 2 cents,
Rob (r.zini<AT>strhold.it)

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