Re: [Dovecot] Timeouts with outlook express
Hi
Yes I have all the outlook workarounds enabled.
Interestingly the progress bar dose not move until the whole email has been downloaded. Normally this moves bit by bit as the mail downloads. But as I said the email is downloading, there is network traffic.
Any ideas?
Regards Daniel
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 07:45 +0000, Andrew Hutchings wrote:
Hi Daniel,
Have you tried turning on th outlook-no-nuls workaround in dovecot?
Regards Andrew
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 15:22 +0800, 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.
This seem to relate to the "Server Timeouts" setting under mail account Properties/advance. If this setting is set higher the dialogue come only after this time has passed.
If the mail take a long time to download if say is very big the user may have to click "Wait" a number of time even if the time out setting is set to the largest amount.
It funny because the mail is downloading, So the pop3 server has not stopped responding as outlook express say it has. Strange.
What is happening here? and is there a work around for it. Do I have a setting wrong.
Regards Daniel ROwe
Hi Daniel,
The only other things I can think of are you may have a mail proxy installed. Or an anti-virus / spam filer which uses internal proxy servers (most do, newer ones are passive proxys). These download the whole mail into the proxy before passing it to outlook which can make outlook think there is no traffic and times out.
Regards Andrew
Daniel wrote:
Hi
Yes I have all the outlook workarounds enabled.
Interestingly the progress bar dose not move until the whole email has been downloaded. Normally this moves bit by bit as the mail downloads. But as I said the email is downloading, there is network traffic.
Any ideas?
Regards Daniel
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 07:45 +0000, Andrew Hutchings wrote:
Hi Daniel,
Have you tried turning on th outlook-no-nuls workaround in dovecot?
Regards Andrew
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 15:22 +0800, 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.
This seem to relate to the "Server Timeouts" setting under mail account Properties/advance. If this setting is set higher the dialogue come only after this time has passed.
If the mail take a long time to download if say is very big the user may have to click "Wait" a number of time even if the time out setting is set to the largest amount.
It funny because the mail is downloading, So the pop3 server has not stopped responding as outlook express say it has. Strange.
What is happening here? and is there a work around for it. Do I have a setting wrong.
Regards Daniel ROwe
-- Andrew Hutchings Systems Operator / Developer / Linux Guru Netserve Consultants Ltd. http://www.domaincity.co.uk/
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