4:01 p.m.
I hesitate to report this, because the systems folks have made some changes
to the mail server, and there have been other problems. However, I seem to
be the only one having problems (most people here use Netscape for mail,
and the other XEmacs/VM guys use a separate proc to grab mail from the POP
server).
Also, I've had no problems with XEmacs/VM prior to this for years.
What I'm seeing is this:
o although I have vm-auto-get-new-mail set to 60 seconds, it never actually
gets mail until I manually tell it to (via g)
o even when I do that, I have to try repeatedly - after several tries
(i.e. banging on "g" like a madman), it will either:
- tell me my password is incorrect, so I have to re-enter it, or
- download a large batch of messages
o another weird thing I'm seeing is that occasionally I'm seeing msgs with
this in the header:
+OK 2286 octets
in between the X-VM-v5-Data and Return-Path headers
the reason I notice this is that it screws up the displayed headers, so I
see many more than usual
o the sys admin says he's seeing lots of this in the mail server logs:
Aug 6 11:54:49 gimel qpopper[40152]: turner at denmark.blueskystudios.com (10.1.10.71):
-ERR Unknown command: "ass".
Aug 6 11:55:49 gimel qpopper[40228]: turner at denmark.blueskystudios.com (10.1.10.71):
-ERR Unknown command: "ass".
Aug 6 11:56:49 gimel qpopper[40360]: turner at denmark.blueskystudios.com (10.1.10.71):
-ERR Unknown command: "ass".
looks like something related to password?
o one last data point is that when I sent a msg to our sys admin, he said
he rec'd two identical copies, even down to the time stamp and message id
let me know if there's any other data that might be useful, or if there's
anything I should try
most of all, I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else is seeing similar
weirdness
thx,
-John Turner
Emacs : XEmacs 21.5 (beta2) "artichoke" [Lucid] (mips-sgi-irix6.5) of Mon Jul
30 2001 on denmark
Package: VM 6.95
current state:
==============
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