[Dovecot] Timeouts with outlook express

[Andrew Hutchings]

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
>>>
>>>
> 
> 
> 

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