Re: Extended RETR - version 2
Jochen Topf <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.pop3ext |
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Torbjorn Tornkvist <[email protected]> wrote: :> Many clients connecting to an ISP, or even the ISP itself, :> have their modems setup in a way that doesn't handle a noisy :> phoneline very well. When line-quality isn't high enough, this :> often results in a premature disconnect. : Sorry, but I'm a bit doubtful about this extension. How serious : is the problem with a "noisy phoneline" really ? I'm just a naive : user (i.e not running an ISP) but I have never experienced this : problem, neither when living in Sweden nor in Australia. A quick grep over the logfiles of a large ISP (>1 Mio POP accesses a day) tells me that less then 0.1% of the connections die while sending something to the client. There are another about 0.2% where the client didn't properly close the connection with QUIT, but they happen while waiting for the next command. These numbers are very rough, just to give a sense of the order of magnitude. They will probabely vary between different ISPs depending on types of users etc. Jochen -- Jochen Topf - [email protected] - http://www.remote.org/jochen/