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Re: POP3 behavior on broken tcp connection

Marshall Rose <mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us> Fri, 03 June 1994 04:46 UTC

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To: John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: POP3 behavior on broken tcp connection
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From: Marshall Rose <mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us>

no, No, NO!  If the TCP connection breaks, the server MUST NOT delete the
messages.  Anyone ever hear of robustness?  Jeesh.

/mtr

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