Mailbox is locked by POP server

[Pascal Gienger]

former03 | Baltasar Cevc <baltasar.cevc at former03.de> wrote:

> Hi Martin,
>
> Personally I do not use POP3 any more - however I remember that there
> was a limitaition of 1 connection per mailbox in other servers.

Yes.
The POP3 RFC states that operations such as DELEte a message will become 
"final" after issuing a "QUIT" command. If connection breaks, no change is 
made to the mailbox.

For having multiple concurrent POP3 access to a mailbox a complete 
transaction based model including rollbacks would be needed to implement 
proper POP3. I don't think anybody wants to improve pop3d to accomplish 
that ;-)