Hi all, I've encountered a weird problem since changing the POP server for the ISP I work for. Basically, we have had four clients out of a significantly large client base lose the ability to pop their mail. The problem exists when the client goes to authenticate to check mail - Outlook Express returns a timeout error after 60 seconds (default behaviour). This response isn't elicited when either telnetting in and issuing raw POP commands, or using another email client (ie. Eudora 5.1) from the -same machine-.
One such machine (which we have obtained from our client for testing purposes) has a fresh install of Windows 2000, and at the start had a new copy of Internet Explorer/Outlook Express 5.0. After the fault appeared, the machine was upgraded to IE/OE 5.5 SP2, which didn't fix it. A further upgrade to IE6 did not help either. This was tested on both the local lan that the mail server was on, as well as over a dial-up connection. The tricky thing here is that OE -can successfully- pop mail from other pop servers, including the old mail server, and other pop servers on the same lan (running various pop daemons including ipop3d, cucipop etc), just not the server running courier. To prove that there was no individual account setup flaws, a previously working account was modified so that only the server-name was changed to point to the server running courier. Debugs of the Outlook Express pop session show no response after issuing the PASS command. Relevant information: Server: courier ver blah blah Clients: Windows 2000 SP2 running Internet Explorer/Outlook Express 5.50.4807.2300 SP2 Windows 2000 SP2 running Internet Explorer/Outlook Express 6.0.2600.0000 Windows 98SE running Internet Explorer/Outlook Express 5.50.4807.2300 SP2 What I don't get is the difference between the four installs of IE/OE here, and the tens of thousands of our other clients who run IE/OE and have no troubles at all. Any ideas (don't say "reinstall windows" :) would be gratefully received. Regards, justaan. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
