>FWIW, I had that happen where both the mail server and the client were >on the same LAN.
Not the case here. >The PC was a Pentium 100 (or 133), with 128MB of Ram. I think the box >would just get too busy to deal with Outlook, and for some reason emails >would be duplicated (Outlook would retrieve the mail, but timeout trying >to delete it, so it would download the message again - hence >'duplicates'). no duplicates, it is not downloading ANY messages... it times out trying to DL the first. >Are you running an older machine, or maybe one with low memory, PLUS >qmail-scanner/anti-virus stuff? That could do it.. Server is a P3-600, 1GB RAM Workstation is a P3-550, 512mb RAM No qmail scanner, etc... running on toaster. >All I ended up doing was getting them a $200 Wal-Mart PC (the Lycoris >ones) and reinstalling the toaster on that. I did end up replacing the >built-in NIC with an old 3c90x - The built-in one was getting buffer >errors that, according to the 1997 (1999?) posts I found, were because >of bad NIC drivers in FreeBSD.. Using Intel Pro 100 NIC... solid performers with FreeBSD >Seems fine now. Thanks for the try though. Dave
