SegmFault with IMP & QPOP

[giomau@mate.polimi.it]

Here is my configuration: 

Horde 1.2.2 - IMP 2.2.3 - mysql 3.22.32 - apache 1.3.12 - php 4.0.

Web access to mail is obtained via an old POP3 server on a 
different machine, i.e QPOP version 2.41 beta1 (yes, I know that 
Qualcomm strongly encourage to upgrade to the current release, 
but our old 486 with sendmail and QPOP is perfectly working since 
1995 without any kind of interruption, and furthermore security is 
not so important to us...).

Installation following your notes and FAQ was straightforward since 
the first time.

At present, anyone can access his own mailbox 
(read/delete/compose...)  only if it contains no more than 20 
messages, regardless of their size. Trying to access a mailbox 
with 21 messages results in the generic error 'Document contains 
no data', and in an entry in error_log of this kind:

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[Wed Dec 27 13:03:04 2000] [notice] child pid 4028 exit signal 
Segmentation fault (11)
[Wed Dec 27 13:03:13 2000] [notice] child pid 4025 exit signal 
Segmentation fault (11)
[Wed Dec 27 13:04:18 2000] [notice] child pid 4024 exit signal 
Segmentation fault (11)
[Wed Dec 27 13:04:49 2000] [notice] child pid 4022 exit signal 
Segmentation fault (11)
[Wed Dec 27 13:05:13 2000] [notice] child pid 4027 exit signal 
Segmentation fault (11)
[Wed Dec 27 13:06:02 2000] [notice] child pid 4029 exit signal 
Segmentation fault (11)
[Wed Dec 27 13:06:25 2000] [notice] child pid 4023 exit signal 
Segmentation fault (11)
[Wed Dec 27 13:09:00 2000] [notice] child pid 4026 exit signal 
Segmentation fault (11)
[Wed Dec 27 13:09:33 2000] [notice] child pid 4070 exit signal 
Segmentation fault (11)
[Wed Dec 27 13:10:01 2000] [notice] child pid 4073 exit signal 
Segmentation fault (11)
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Have you ever heard of a behaviour like that? 

Is there any kind of hope that we can keep on using QPOP?
Have you ever obtained positive feed back from more recent 
versions of QPOP?

Should we perhaps upgrade to an IMAP server?

It'is not so simple to keep the users of our Department satisfied 
with a mailbox of no more than 20 messages...

What is your opinion?

Thank you for your unvailable support.

Giovanni Mauri
giomau@mate.polimi.it

Dept. of Mathematics
Politecnico di Milano
Via Bonardi, 11
20133-Milano MI
Italy







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Dr. G. Mauri
Dept. of Mathematics
Politecnico - Milano
giomau@mate.polimi.it
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