Problems with idle pop3 connections locking mailboxes

[Rob Siemborski]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Rob Siemborski wrote:
>> I don't believe there is anything that will substantially change how POP
>> works if what you're seeing is a write() call that just blocks forever,
>> no.
>
> Shouldn't cyrus timeout the client eventually, and unlock the mailbox?

If write() is blocking, no, there is not currently code that will cause a 
timeout to occur.  However, if write() is blocking that means that the 
connection is still good *and* the data is transferring.  We have to 
believe the OS in this case -- otherwise say we had a 50MB write() call 
to a modem link.  We can't justifiably time out here.

The timeouts that we do perform happen in select() calls, which works fine 
(while we're waiting for incoming data).

-Rob

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