[lug] Mail Round Robin

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Mon Nov 19 14:21:10 MST 2001


I'm no help on your POP problems, but IMAP handles shared folders
nicely.

Nate

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:55:19AM -0700, Ken Kinder wrote:
> I've been putting together this Mail Round Robin thing. I started off with a 
> simple Perl script, that uses Net::POP3. I ran into a problem: it dies on a 
> "Broken Pipe" error - the truely annoying thing is, then since it doesn't 
> have the ability to quit elegantly, the deleted messages don't really get 
> deleted.
> 
> Not knowing what was causing that error, I switched to connecting and 
> disconnecting for each message, one at a time, to make each message more like 
> an atomic transaction. Then, the server wigged out and thought it was being 
> flooded. Crappers!
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions? I have three customer service reps who need 
> to have mail sent to a general drop-box.
> 
> --
> Ken Kinder
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Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>

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