on Sat, 19 Jan 2008
16:10:04 -0800
> >
> > The pace of new features for Polarbar may not be coming along
> > very fast [but] bug fixes are being done on a regular basis.
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> What exactly happened with Polarbar? The web site isn't being
> maintained which led me to think the project was "frozen". The last
> post I received on the Polarbar mail list was 2006-Sep.
What happened was that someone failed to renew the registration for polarbar
domain name and someone claimed it. It has since been recovered from someone
that wanted a fee to return the domain name (I do not know the details). This
meant the the mailing list and web site disappeared. The web site was moved to
another domain until the name was recovered. The mailing list also died, it
was changed to a web forum (I very much dislike web forums) and seems it will
never be restarted.
Web site http://polarbar.net/
Web forum http://polarbar.netfang.net/forum/
> > I have a bug (being worked on at this time by the developers)
> > where Polarbar keeps a message to resend later when in
> > fact the message was sent correctly the first time.
>
> FWIW, I have the same problem every once in a while with my Netscape
> 2.02. As near as I can figure, sometimes the message gets sent but the
> final handshake is incomplete (the "250 Requested mail action okay,
> completed" is sent by the remote mail server but not received locally),
> so the message is kept in my send queue even though it was sent
> successfully.
The problem I had was with the current level of OS/2 Sendmail and Polarbar,
which has now been fixed. It was not an intermittent problem as Sendmail was
including return codes that Polarbar did not ignore (per the RFC). It is
possible that other email servers may on certain error conditions include an
extra return code that should be ignored but I expect that most of the time it
is as you say a lost packet at the end of the SMTP transaction.
--
Robert Blair
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