From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 5 18:07:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA23255 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Dec 1995 18:07:20 -0800 Received: from mal9000.mal.com (ceharris@mal9000.mal.com [198.82.200.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA23250 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 1995 18:07:17 -0800 Received: (ceharris@localhost) by mal9000.mal.com (8.6.10/8.6.4) id VAA15138; Tue, 5 Dec 1995 21:06:47 -0500 From: Carl Harris Message-Id: <199512060206.VAA15138@mal9000.mal.com> Subject: Beware: popclient (fwd) To: lenzi@cwbtwo.bsi.com.br Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 21:06:47 -0500 (EST) Cc: jaitken@cslab.vt.edu, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 762 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I have compiled a new version of popclient and there is > a bug in the config.h that deals with the mail command > It happens that the mail command in the pop client is > with an option -d. At the time the popclient executes mail > to save your data, it executes mail -d [user] and > the mail program vanishes with your mail. What "new" version of popclient did you compile? The last version of popclient that used "mail" was 2.21 (which is more than two years old). Get the latest version from ftp.mal.com:/pub/pop... FreeBSD is one of the platforms I use to develop popclient, so I'm *quite positive* that it works correctly for that environment. -- Carl Harris Network Systems Engineer Communications Network Services, Virginia Tech ceharris@mal.com