23.0.50; movemail change

23.0.50; movemail change

[jpff]

One one of my machines I fetch mail to RMAIL via pop, and on the others
I use reading from a file.  Since the change to movemail (on 13 Jan I
think) the pop version fails.

movemail: Error getting message count from POP server: Unexpected response from POP server in pop_stat
(No new mail has arrived)

There are messages; using fetchmail on a different system I can get
them to the mail box, but that is hard (involving home and work
systems).  I think that a bug was introduced in the po: form of mail
box

Message below if from a machine that is OK problem machine is an
AMD64x2 running Suse 10.3

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==John ffitch

Re: 23.0.50; movemail change

[Dan Nicolaescu]

jpff <jpff@codemist.co.uk> writes:

  > One one of my machines I fetch mail to RMAIL via pop, and on the others
  > I use reading from a file.  Since the change to movemail (on 13 Jan I
  > think) the pop version fails.
  > 
  > movemail: Error getting message count from POP server: Unexpected response from POP server in pop_stat
  > (No new mail has arrived)
  > 
  > There are messages; using fetchmail on a different system I can get
  > them to the mail box, but that is hard (involving home and work
  > systems).  I think that a bug was introduced in the po: form of mail
  > box
  > 
  > Message below if from a machine that is OK problem machine is an
  > AMD64x2 running Suse 10.3

Can you please send a diff between the results of preprocessing
movemail.c before and after the Jan 13 change?

Re: 23.0.50; movemail change

[jpff]

Looking more closely, this seems to be the change in lib-src/pop.c
(diff below...) as this is the error message I am seeing.  At present
I am trying to see how to devise a simple test without trashing all my
mail!



378 	       return (-1); 	       return (-1);
379 	     } 	     }
380 	  	 
381 	   *count = atoi (&fromserver[4]); 	   errno = 0;
382 	  	   *count = strtol (&fromserver[4], &end_ptr, 10);
383 	  	   /* Check validity of string-to-integer conversion. */
384 	  	   if (fromserver[4] == 0 || *end_ptr != 0 || errno)
385 	  	     {
386 	  	       strcpy (pop_error, "Unexpected response from POP server in pop_stat");
387 	  	       pop_trash (server);
388 	  	       return (-1);
389 	  	     }
390 	  	 
391 	   fromserver = index (&fromserver[4], ' '); 	   fromserver = index (&fromserver[4], ' ');
392 	   if (! fromserver) 	   if (! fromserver)
# 	Line 388  	Line 397 
397 	       return (-1); 	       return (-1);
398 	     } 	     }
399 	  	 
400 	   *size = atoi (fromserver + 1); 	   errno = 0;
401 	  	   *size = strtol (fromserver + 1, &end_ptr, 10);
402 	  	   if (*(fromserver + 1) == 0 || *end_ptr != 0 || errno)
403 	  	     {
404 	  	       strcpy (pop_error, "Unexpected response from POP server in pop_stat");
405 	  	       pop_trash (server);
406 	  	       return (-1);
407 	  	     }
408 	  	 

	 }
# 	Line 913  	Line 929 
929 	     } 	     }
930 	   else 	   else
931 	     { 	     {
932 	       return (atoi (&fromserver[4])); 	       char *end_ptr;
933 	  	       int count;
934 	  	       errno = 0;
935 	  	       count = strtol (&fromserver[4], &end_ptr, 10);
936 	  	       if (fromserver[4] == 0 || *end_ptr != 0 || errno)
937 	  	         {
938 	  	           strcpy (pop_error, "Unexpected response from server in pop_last");
939 	  	           pop_trash (server);
940 	  	           return (-1);
941 	  	         }
942 	  	       return count;
943 	     } 	     }
944 	 } 	 }
945 	  	 
==John ffitch

Re: 23.0.50; movemail change

[jpff]

Using strace it seems that movemail returns
+OK 38 324994
and there are 38 messages.  I assume that the second number is the
total length in bytes, but emacs is assuming that there is nothing
after the count


The pop/imap server is cyrus


movemail: Error getting message count from POP server: Unexpected response from POP server in pop_stat POP says:+OK 38 324994
(No new mail has arrived)

==John ffitch

Re: 23.0.50; movemail change

[Dan Nicolaescu]

<jpff@cs.bath.ac.uk> writes:

  > Using strace it seems that movemail returns
  > +OK 38 324994
  > and there are 38 messages.  I assume that the second number is the
  > total length in bytes, but emacs is assuming that there is nothing
  > after the count
  > 
  > 
  > The pop/imap server is cyrus
  > 
  > 
  > movemail: Error getting message count from POP server: Unexpected response from POP server in pop_stat POP says:+OK 38 324994
  > (No new mail has arrived)

It would be great if you try do a binary search and find out when
exactly this broke. The number of changes to pop.c/movemail.c is rather
small, so it should not be too hard.

Re: 23.0.50; movemail change

[Chong Yidong]

<jpff@cs.bath.ac.uk> writes:

> Using strace it seems that movemail returns
> +OK 38 324994
> and there are 38 messages.  I assume that the second number is the
> total length in bytes, but emacs is assuming that there is nothing
> after the count
>
> movemail: Error getting message count from POP server: Unexpected
> response from POP server in pop_stat POP says:+OK 38 324994 (No new
> mail has arrived)

I checked in a fix.  Please verify if it works, and thanks!

Re: 23.0.50; movemail change

[jpff]

Sorry for the delay but I have been marking examinations.

Checked out this afternoon and rebuilt.  It is working now.
Thank so much.  Now back to reading e-mail
==John ffitch