lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm        |  4 ++--
 lib/PublicInbox/DSdeflate.pm |  2 +-
 lib/PublicInbox/IMAP.pm      | 12 +++---------
 lib/PublicInbox/NNTP.pm      | 10 ++--------
 lib/PublicInbox/POP3.pm      |  9 ++-------

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm
index 5e8a6a6601c51238a859f429bda5f584cda7a1b1..268406628788931b56d71f31e5a8203c2ce963db 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/DS.pm
@@ -660,8 +660,8 @@ 	my $more = eval { $cb->($self, @args) };
 	if ($@ || !$self->{sock}) { # something bad happened...
 		delete $self->{long_cb};
 		my $elapsed = now() - $t0;
-		$@ and $self->err("%s during long response[$fd] - %0.6f",
-				    $@, $elapsed);
+		$@ and warn("$@ during long response[$fd] - ",
+				sprintf('%0.6f', $elapsed),"\n");
 		$self->out(" deferred[$fd] aborted - %0.6f", $elapsed);
 		$self->close;
 	} elsif ($more) { # $self->{wbuf}:
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/DSdeflate.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/DSdeflate.pm
index 639690e27f61873cf29234487bac58315b2a51d1..539adf0fbfd47f1097b6ae89952534835cac7006 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/DSdeflate.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/DSdeflate.pm
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ sub enable {
 	my ($class, $self) = @_;
 	my ($in, $err) = Compress::Raw::Zlib::Inflate->new(%IN_OPT);
 	if ($err != Z_OK) {
-		$self->err("Inflate->new failed: $err");
+		warn("Inflate->new failed: $err\n");
 		return;
 	}
 	bless $self, $class;
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/IMAP.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/IMAP.pm
index 2be1b763f30a89f12e84a8c1fa0339026cf3937d..0a65d87cb009f790fe114ce175a0bff639943f18 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/IMAP.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/IMAP.pm
@@ -1165,17 +1165,11 @@ 	};
 	my $err = $@;
 	if ($err && $self->{sock}) {
 		$l =~ s/\r?\n//s;
-		err($self, 'error from: %s (%s)', $l, $err);
+		warn("error from: $l ($err)\n");
 		$tag //= '*';
-		$res = "$tag BAD program fault - command not performed\r\n";
+		$res = \"$tag BAD program fault - command not performed\r\n";
 	}
-	return 0 unless defined $res;
-	$self->write($res);
-}
-
-sub err ($$;@) {
-	my ($self, $fmt, @args) = @_;
-	printf { $self->{imapd}->{err} } $fmt."\n", @args;
+	defined($res) ? $self->write($res) : 0;
 }
 
 sub out ($$;@) {
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/NNTP.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/NNTP.pm
index ef01f44886203abdeaa3b07dad35226a9e7d6770..ceaf05f6948da0948fa90fb14fd9eae634faf356 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/NNTP.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/NNTP.pm
@@ -72,9 +72,8 @@ 	return $self->write(\r501) unless args_ok($req, scalar @args);
 	my $res = eval { $req->($self, @args) };
 	my $err = $@;
 	if ($err && $self->{sock}) {
-		local $/ = "\n";
-		chomp($l);
-		err($self, 'error from: %s (%s)', $l, $err);
+		$l =~ s/\r?\n//s;
+		warn("error from: $l ($err)\n");
 		$res = \"503 program fault - command not performed\r\n";
 	}
 	defined($res) ? $self->write($res) : 0;
@@ -943,11 +942,6 @@ 		}
 	}
 	return \"430 no such article on server\r\n" unless @paths;
 	'223 '.join(' ', sort(@paths))."\r\n";
-}
-
-sub err ($$;@) {
-	my ($self, $fmt, @args) = @_;
-	printf { $self->{nntpd}->{err} } $fmt."\n", @args;
 }
 
 sub out ($$;@) {
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/POP3.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/POP3.pm
index c993e558db09c2fbd8de5a15f342099fe6fc4ccd..82df257c2d7002d910ef3d35753512672cacac32 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/POP3.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/POP3.pm
@@ -45,11 +45,6 @@ };
 
 # XXX FIXME: duplicated stuff from NNTP.pm and IMAP.pm
 
-sub err ($$;@) {
-	my ($self, $fmt, @args) = @_;
-	printf { $self->{pop3d}->{err} } $fmt."\n", @args;
-}
-
 sub out ($$;@) {
 	my ($self, $fmt, @args) = @_;
 	printf { $self->{pop3d}->{out} } $fmt."\n", @args;
@@ -364,8 +359,8 @@ 	my $res = $req ? eval { $req->($self, @args) } :
 		\"-ERR command not recognized\r\n";
 	my $err = $@;
 	if ($err && $self->{sock}) {
-		chomp($l);
-		err($self, 'error from: %s (%s)', $l, $err);
+		$l =~ s/\r?\n//s;
+		warn("error from: $l ($err)\n");
 		$res = \"-ERR program fault - command not performed\r\n";
 	}
 	defined($res) ? $self->write($res) : 0;