[Dovecot] POP3 download problem

[Eddie du Plessis]

Hi Andrew 


Is seems as if it is not even seeing any of the messages. It does connect
and disconnect successfully though from outlook. 

I have tried the workaround and I have also telnet to port 110 and logged in
as a user I have created for testing and the following is what I get:  


Connected to server1.nowmedia.co.za (192.168.3.218).
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK dovecot ready.
USER test1
+OK
PASS 1234
+OK Logged in.
LIST
+OK 0 messages:
.


And when I do a listing of the /var/spool/mail directory this is what I see
there:


-rw-rw----   1 test1         mail  4.8K Jun  3 12:14 test1


I am using version "dovecot-0.99.14-1.1.fc2.rf"


Thank you 

Eddie
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Hutchings [mailto:info at a-wing.co.uk] 
Sent: 03 June 2005 12:44 PM
To: Eddie du Plessis; dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] POP3 download problem

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
> 

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

-- 
Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing)
Linux Guru - Netserve Consultants Ltd. - http://www.domaincity.co.uk/
Admin - North Wales Linux User Group - http://www.nwlug.org.uk/
BOFH excuse 397: T-1's congested due to porn traffic to the news server.


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