Subject: PINE, POP3, 'abort' signal, etc.

From: [email-masked] (Rick Cochran)
Date: 27 May 1997 13:36:34 GMT

The default mail checking interval for PINE 3.95 is 150 seconds.
The default timeout for our POP3 daemon is 120 seconds.
PINE appears to want a continuous connection to the POP3 server.
After 120 seconds, the POP3 server times out and closes the
connection.  After another 30 seconds, PINE attempts to check
for mail, notices that the connection has been closed, gets an
'abort' signal, and crashes.

Keeping a continuous connection to the POP3 server is NOT how
I would expect a POP3 client to work.  Why does PINE do this?

-Rick

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From: Rudolf Kompf <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 11:18:58 +0200 (MET DST)

On 27 May 1997, Rick Cochran wrote:

-> Date: 27 May 1997 13:36:34 GMT
-> From: Rick Cochran <[email-masked]>
-> To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
-> Subject: PINE, POP3, 'abort' signal, etc.
-> 
-> The default mail checking interval for PINE 3.95 is 150 seconds.
-> The default timeout for our POP3 daemon is 120 seconds.
-> PINE appears to want a continuous connection to the POP3 server.
-> After 120 seconds, the POP3 server times out and closes the
-> connection.  After another 30 seconds, PINE attempts to check
-> for mail, notices that the connection has been closed, gets an
-> 'abort' signal, and crashes.
-> 
-> Keeping a continuous connection to the POP3 server is NOT how
-> I would expect a POP3 client to work.  Why does PINE do this?
-> 
-> -Rick
-> 
-> -- 
-> |Rick Cochran		  			      phone: 607-255-7223|
-> |Cornell Materials Science Center			FAX: 607-255-3957|
-> |E20 Clark Hall, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853	      email: [email-masked]|
-> | "The Founding Fathers did not establish the United States as a	 |
-> | democratic republic so that elected officials would decide trivia,	 |
-> | while all great questions would be decided by the judiciary."		 |
-> |					Judge Andrew Kleinfeld		 |
-> 
Goto the config-screen. Set mail-check-interval to 0, and pine never
checks for new mail.

Hope this helps

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