popa3d-users - Re: Where does it go wrong?

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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:18:59 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Where does it go wrong?

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 04:26:28PM +0100, Jappe Reuling wrote:

Hi,

> Dec  9 16:55:58 mailserver popa3d[73054]: Premature disconnect
> 
> We've been using popa3d on several servers/configurations and never had 
> ANY problems so this is realy strange.
> popa3d runs from inetd, inetd runs with just the standard '-wW' 
> options. No other error messages in the log files except the above. The 
> clients fetching use winXP/outlook (all of them) and only a few get 
> this error (and a error in outlook).

Is this Outlook or Outlook Express?

Most likely a client bug, possibly a known one.

Which version of popa3d?  One related workaround went in after 0.5.1
(it's in 0.5.9):

* Mon May 27 2002 Solar Designer <solar@....openwall.com>
- Workaround a bug in certain versions of Microsoft Outlook Express
(reported) where the client would abort on body-less messages which are
lacking a blank line after the headers (valid per RFC 822, 2822).

The second possibility to look into is a networking problem.  tcpdump
might help.

-- 
/sd