On 04/18/2011 07:13 PM, JD wrote: > Could very well be a harmless bug. > I was also wondering if the bug is caused by the client request > being broadcast to all 3 gmail servers, and one of them quickly > responds, and one or both of the other 2, which are apparently > not notified that the response has been sent, will send their > reply to a session which has already closed. > Any google mail admins on this list?? :) > > if in your case a another server (also google's property) is sending the RST, it's different situation from mine, to be sure runs "tcppdump -i eth0 port 995 -n" in a terminal and download your email via thunderbird, if you see two different pop server ip address, well in my limited testing I only was one server. maybe in your logs have three servers written because in one day one ip addresss was resolved by your dns server, after sometimes the dns cache expired and resolved another ip address now maybe linux isn't closing properly the session, so google is sending the RST, but having two bugs in different programs (fetchmail and thunderbird) is more unlikely which only a bug in google'spop server. also that packet isn't marked NEW, ESTABLISHED or RELATED, but INVALID I'm not sure if a stock Linux install DROP or REJECT the INVALID packets, but maybe don't log them so the problem isn't more known between the users of gmail pop3s servers, many prefer imap. I use imap but only in my own servers. Gabriel -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
