I was once asked to fix a Eudora Internet Mail Server installation
that was freezing POP clients. Every client in the office froze while
trying to download mail. Turned out that they were all on a mailing
list & someone had sent a mail to that list with a blank body. They
were also all using M$ LookOut Express, which chokes on messages with
blank bodies in some circumstances. After wiping out the offending
message, everything was okay again. So, as others have said, don't
use M$ software. :) To see if this is the problem, do this from your
mail server:
-----
%telnet localhost 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+OK
pass password
+OK
list
+OK
1 2784
2 1690
3 1353
4 1871
.
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You can then use the "retr" command to look at the offending message,
i.e. "retr 4" if message #4 is causing the problem. To remove a
problematic message, use the "dele" command, i.e. "dele 4". When
you're done, type "quit" to exit the POP session.
HTH,
-Kit
At 7:47 PM +0300 9/26/01, Ufuk M. Fakioglu wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am using qmail 1.03 + vpopmail 4.9.8 on Solaris 2.7 and MS Outlook
>Express as pop3 client.
>
>While retrieving messages, without any obvious reason, the pop3
>session would first freeze and then Outlook would display an error
>message saying that it cannot communicate with the pop3 server for
>60 seconds. The message counter on the client side would start to
>increase and then suddenly stop at some arbitrary mesage like
>"receiving messages 14 of 25" and freeze like that.
>
>Any suggestions will be dearly appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>
>Ufuk
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