This sounds like a known - unconfirmed - bug #951
On 02/23/2012 10:20 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Hi Paul
>
> sorry for disturb you again :-(
> but there is still a problem in POP3
>
> test-attachment created with:
> dd if=/dev/urandom of=attachment.bin bs=1M count=15
>
> yesterday, before the last POP3 fixes a customer with attachments
> around 8 or 20 MB said he becomes in outlook a error message that
> the server closed the connection shortly before fnisnih - none of
> "our" fixes seems to change this behavior
> _________________________________________
>
> i can reproduce this still if the connection is slow enough
> and only with Outlook 2003 and large attachments and simulate
> the slow connection with server on VMware Workstation 8.0
> limit the upstream speed to 1.5 Mbit, clients are even slower
>
> see "receive1.gif" and "receive2.gif" and vmware-settings
> only p...@testserver.rhsoft.net is relevant, other server halted
> interesting is that after the first fail Outlook 2003 starts again
> and also fails after that finally stop trying, sometimes you even
> reveive the whole message, but not commited as OK and still trying
> again
> _________________________________________
>
> "pop3.c" contains "ERR I'm leaving, you're too slow"
>
> i saw this one time on Outlook 2003 with the 15 MB attachment
> while Outlook 2007 did not have any problem (or had luck), the
> other failed times it gave typical useless microsoft-messages
> saying "the server is not available"
>
> so i guess Outlook 2003 and 2007 doing something different
>
> there must be a bug in handling a client doing nothing
> i monitored the transmission and there was progress and
> data on the line (outlook said 2 minutes left at this speed)
>
> the debug-log would make you not happy because it is
> 1.9 GB large for only this transmission with level 511
>
> attached "cat dbmail.err | tail -n 10000 > dbmail-log.txt"
> compressed with XZ - most content is binary stuff like this
> and wondering that it does not contain the string "too slow"
> _________________________________________
>
> Regards
> Harry
>
>
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