[Info-vax] A POP oddity, moves messages to MAIL without reading them

[Jeremy Begg]

Hi,

This is exactly why we use PMDF for our mail services, for both internal and 
customer purposes.  We worked out long ago that the POP3 and IMAP4 servers 
provided with all 3 OpenVMS TCP/IP stacks are simply inadequate, and even 
moreso for today's more complex email environments.

Regards,

	Jeremy Begg


JF Mezei wrote:
> IMAP leaves messages in the "INBOX" (or NEWMAIL to be precise) after
> they have been read, but are marked as read.
> 
> Was testing connection via mobile thethering, and decided to
> 
> TELNET myhost 110
> 
> USER myuser
> PASS mypassword
> LIST
> 
> Instead of listing about 100 messages, it listed 547 of them.
> (that list is a message number (1 to 547) and the message size. This
> command took forever to complete.
> 
> Then, I tried RETR 547 to see what the newest message was, and I got an
> error about insufficient virtual memory.
> 
> So I quit.
> 
> Upon coming back to my real mac, I found out that POP had moved all the
> mail in NEWMAIL to READ, despite having no succesful READ operation done
>  during that POP session. (and certaintly not read hundreds of messages,
> I only attempred to read one).
> 
> Mail services will be the first thing coming off VMS when I get a new
> server in the coming months/weeks.