Thanks a lot. I will try that...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kit Halsted" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ufuk M. Fakioglu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "vchkpw @ inter7 . com"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: pop3 session would freeze
> 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
> .
> -----
>
> 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
>
> --
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> -Benjamin Franklin
>
> "...qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum"
> (...if you would have peace, be prepared for war)
> -Flavius Vegetius Renatus
>
