[Dovecot] Timeouts with outlook express

[Curtis Maloney]

Daniel wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am using Dovecot 0.99.12.1 (just upgraded) on a site with about 1500
> mailboxes. One thing I have noticed is when the client outlook express
> is receiving a large mail via pop3 it gets a time out. There is traffic.
> If you click on the "wait" button in the dialogue the mail continues to
> download. 
> 

Amazing... it's still doing this?  I saw the fruits of this wrongheadedness 
some years ago.  Users were complaining that they were receiving the same 
message repeatedly, and no more.

What was happening was Messenger/Outlook/OE was downloading the message, and 
decoding the attachment, then timing out and so not telling the POP server to 
delete it.  Why they decoded the attachment before confirming the 
receive/deleting the message on the server, who can say...

Wonderfully stupid design which you'd think they'd fix eventually... then again...

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Curtis Maloney