[Dovecot] POP3 download problem

Andrew Hutchings info at a-wing.co.uk
Fri Jun 3 13:43:30 EEST 2005


Eddie du Plessis wrote:
> Hi All
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> I am experiencing a mail download problem with dovecot’s pop3 protocol. 
> We use outlook XP 2002 mail clients and I have setup a mail system with 
> pop accounts on a Fedora 2 installation using dovecot.
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> Some of the clients download email fine but others do not download email 
> and also do not give any error messages. I have enabled the “verbose” 
> options in the /etc/dovecot.conf and all the logged messages appear the 
> same for those who get email and for those who don’t. I listed the 
> /var/spool/mail directory and can see mail in the accounts who do not 
> seem to download. We are running an 80 – 90 user system.
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> I have even tried IMAP on the clients with no success. There is nothing 
> viable in the system log.
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> I would appreciate it if you could help.
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> Thank you
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> Kind regards,
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> Eddie
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Hi Eddie,

With the customers that have problems, does it just stop in the middle 
of downloading their mail?
If so you might want to look at switching on the outlook-no-nuls work 
around.

Regards
Andrew

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Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing)
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