Re: Qpopper continually fails to POP mail from large mbox

At 02:41 PM 7/18/2006, Gerard wrote:
>Using FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE
>
>I am continuing to have a problem with qpopper getting mail from an mbox
>once the file grows to any sizable capacity
>
>This is an excerpt from the /var/log/messages file:
>
>Jul 18 08:36:47 seibercom qpopper[894]: gerard at 192.168.0.3 
>(192.168.0.3): -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
>Jul 18 08:36:47 seibercom qpopper[894]: Stats: gerard 0 0 143 
>30288106 192.168.0.3 192.168.0.3
>Jul 18 08:36:50 seibercom qpopper[894]: I/O error flushing output to 
>client gerard at 192.168.0.3 [192.168.0.3]: Operation not permitted (1)

This message most commonly indicates the client gave up and went 
away. Perhaps your customer is giving up because you're trying to 
push 30MB of data to them?


>The recourse I have is to manually delete the contents of the mailbox. I
>have the latest version of qpopper installed. I am unsure as to where I
>could post this problem to other than here. I would like to post a bug
>report, but I am not sure as to where to place it.

This issue has been discussed at length. Generally the issue is not 
qpopper's fault. You haven't mentioned what version of qpopper you're 
running, though, it's also possible you're running an older version.