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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 05:14:49 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com,
alexandre.sieira@...hertech.com.br
Subject: Re: Premature disconnects with Outlook
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:20:06PM -0300, Alexandre Sieira wrote:
> I?m having some trouble with my popa3d (version 0.6.3) server. Clients who
> use Outlook to check their mail get some odd timeouts, reported as
> "premature disconnect" by popa3d. A sample output from the log file follows:
>
> Oct 7 09:57:13 mail popa3d[24397]: Authentication passed for userA
> Oct 7 09:57:13 mail popa3d[24397]: 0 messages (0 bytes) loaded
> Oct 7 09:57:18 mail popa3d[24397]: 0 (0) deleted, 0 (0) left
> Oct 7 09:58:16 mail popa3d[24399]: Authentication passed for userB
> Oct 7 09:58:16 mail popa3d[24399]: 0 messages (0 bytes) loaded
> Oct 7 09:58:56 mail popa3d[24401]: Authentication passed for userA
> Oct 7 09:58:56 mail popa3d[24401]: 0 messages (0 bytes) loaded
> Oct 7 09:59:16 mail popa3d[24399]: Premature disconnect
> Oct 7 09:59:57 mail popa3d[24401]: Premature disconnect
> This odd behavior only happens when using Outlook 2002 SP-2 or
> Outlook Express.
What version of Outlook Express?
What OS are you running popa3d on? What network equipment is being
used? Is NAT involved?
> I am also using Norton SystemWorks 2002 (version 2002.05)
> to scan incoming and outgoing e-mail messages.
Does it plug between POP3 clients and the POP3 server? If so, then
it's very likely where your problem is.
Can you try disabling it?
> I don?t think that?s a
> factor, tough, since everything works fine when using other clients, such as
> Eudora or sylpheed.
That doesn't say much.
--
Alexander Peslyak <solar@...nwall.com>
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