[mew-int 00567] Re: POP/SMTP Process life

[Dhruva Krishnamurthy]

From: Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) <kazu at example.com>
Subject: Re: [mew-int 00565] POP/SMTP Process life
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:47:31 +0900 (JST)
Message-ID: <20011113.164731.98587180.kazu at example.com>

kazu> From: Dhruva Krishnamurthy <ykd at example.com>
kazu> Subject: [mew-int 00565] POP/SMTP Process life
kazu> 
kazu> >  I start mew with a default POP server. It retrieves the messages
kazu> >  in the POP server. When I change the POP user name and type "mew"
kazu> >  again, it complains about another process running. 
kazu> 
kazu> At the time, POP is running in background. Just a timing
kazu> problem.
Is there a way of fixing this because the automatic checking of new
mails from the POP server depends on this. If the process is still
alive when the timer or frequency of polling for mails is reached, it
finds a process and fails.
kazu> 
kazu> >  I feel there should be a hook function to call user
kazu> >  defined methods after completely retrieving the POP mails. I could
kazu> >  then add a method to kill the process if it is still alive. 
kazu> 
kazu> Use mew-pop-biff-function.
Since I do not get the right status on the current process, I cannot
kill the process which may actually still retrieving the mails. The
process status is very important. I have also noticed on the modeline,
it says "Receiving:7/7:77%" even after it has completely popped out
all mails in the POP server. I guess this is buggy.
kazu> 
kazu> >  Also, is there a way of accessing mails thru a PROXY server needing
kazu> >  AUTH from MEW?
kazu> 
kazu> I don't understand this. What do you want to do? Is it a standard way?
kazu> 
If you are accessing the Internet through a proxy server and the proxy
server has port 25 and 110 blocked for security reasons, there is a
way of sending POP/SMTP commands through the HTTP port which is
80. You will be connected to the proxy thru port 8080 usually. So,
    from the local machine you open a POP connection thru proxy using
    the HTTP port and communicate thru is tunnel. This is not done
    usually but these days with corporate networks behind firewalls
    and proxys, it is becomming very common.

with best regards,
dhruva

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