RE: [gotmail] Temporary file not being deleted

[Jens E. Madsen Jr.]

Of course, right after sending the email, another error occurred which
left temporary files. I added three more doCleanTempFiles. I  will test
for a few days and send a new copy.

Jens

On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 12:08, Jens E. Madsen Jr. wrote:
> John,
> 
> Again thanks for maintain gotmail.
> 
> I was in the process of adding an additional configuration parameter to
> my version of gotmail when I looked into the temporary file problem.
> 
> I believe that I found the problem. There are several "die" statements
> that can result if things go wrong. "die" simply prints the messages and
> quits. I don't believe it calls the signal handler and from the
> remaining temporary files, that would be a good assumption.
> 
> In the attached gziped file, I have added "doCleanTempFiles" calls which
> for the last two days has not left a temporary file and seems to
> retrieve mail from Hotmail for several account here.
> 
> I also added a "summary" configuration parameter to gotmail for both the
> configuration file and command line argument. When specified it will
> always print a summary of unread messages by folders. I was looking to
> capture a metric of files downloaded and this was my first attempt for a
> quick and dirty solution. I followed the dispText subroutine and added a
> dispSummary subroutine.
> 
> Enjoy,
> Jens
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 17:44, John Fruetel wrote:
> > I've noticed the same thing happen on my computer, but I haven't looked into
> > it.  It's supposed to clean up the temp files after both normal and error
> > exits, but it doesn't always do it.
> > 
> > It's perfectly safe to delete them.  It's what I'm doing for the time being
> > myself. 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden
> > [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of
> > Jens E. Madsen Jr.
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 9:14 AM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: [gotmail] Temporary file not being deleted
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I am currently using gotmail-0.8.1. I have been using gotmail for at least a
> > year and have been very satisfied with it. We use it for our small network
> > here pulling about a half dozen Hotmail accounts. Each user runs a script
> > that pulls their account and send them to postfix to deliver to the user
> > with spam checking (Spamassassin) and virus detection (Clamav).
> > 
> > Recently, I have noticed an excessive number of temporary files remaining in
> > the /tmp directory every day. There is over one hundred for the last two
> > days. They seem to be related to error in the gotmail log but I can not say
> > there is a one-to-one correspondence to errors. 
> > 
> > Does gotmail delete temporary files on errors? If not, should it? If it
> > does, what needs to be configured?
> > 
> > Can I delete the temporary files after gotmail completes execution? I
> > currently delete them after two days.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jens
> > 
> > 
> > 
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