> I have been having a problem lately that has been driving me nuts. For
> some odd reason at random times, some of my users cant delete their old
> messages. It seems to happen using Netscape everytime(maybe just because
> 90% use netscape) and most of the time after receiving a large file. I
> think what is happening is the user receives a large file, gets
> impatient and teries to abort it and screws something up and retries
> multiple times. Then their email doesnt get deleted and I have to
> manually delete it.
>
> Also, everytime I have a user do this it creates a large file in the tmp
> directory. The users then gets impatient and abort and creats another
> file in the tmp. The users does this multiple time and fills up the tmp
> directory. Why isnt it cleaning up.
>
> I am using Sendmail and Linux 2.0.26
You are probably also using in.pop3d, try out cucipop for pop3 mail, it
has worked here a lot better and it eliminates the duplicate files in the
/tmp directory. It can be had at
ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/cucipop/cucipop.tar.gz
It really is a godsend, written by the author of procmail.
Later
Kelley