[Dovecot] pop3 timeout when sending first message

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon May 26 21:15:50 EEST 2003


On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 08:33, Mike Brown wrote:
> I'm using FreeBSD 4.8 with dovecot from the ports collection.
> 
> First I am first trying to fetch mail via POP3. Clients are both OE6 and
> Mozilla. Both exhibit the same behavior: the client says it is receiving
> message 1 of (however many), but nothing happens; no message data is
> transferred. Mozilla seems to keep waiting forever, but OE6 times out after 60
> seconds and lets me stop waiting.

Check the POP3 traffic that they're talking. That would tell at least
something. http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/bugreport.html#sniffing

> There's nothing of interest in the logs. By the way, there seems to be no
> mention of what syslog facility is used by dovecot. What is it? I'm avoiding
> syslog for now and writing to specific files.

It's mail.



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