Hi All,

I am having an annoying pop3 timed out problem. My email client software is Outlook 2002, and the mail server is courier-imap server. I didn't compile it with --enable-workarounds-for-imap-client-bugs.

Since I upgrade my outlook from version 2000 to 2002, this timed-out problem started and has been quite annoying to me. Since outlook 2002 starts many pop3 sessions simultaneously to each account, I dumped my old UW-imap server and made a move to courier-imap with a believing that courie-imap can handle multi-sessions. Courier-imap does the job, however, it doesn't always do the job. The time-out problem pops up occasionally. Microsoft says "they are aware of this, but not solution so far." I think maybe I could somehow work this out on server side.

here is the log from the server:
Dec 14 10:40:16 storm pop3d: Connection, ip=[::ffff:192.168.100.71]
Dec 14 10:40:16 storm pop3d: LOGIN, user=benson, ip=[::ffff:192.168.100.71]
Dec 14 10:41:16 storm pop3d: DISCONNECTED, user=benson, ip=[::ffff:192.168.100.71], top=0, retr=0
Dec 14 10:41:16 storm pop3d: Connection, ip=[::ffff:192.168.100.71]
Dec 14 10:41:17 storm pop3d: LOGIN, user=benson, ip=[::ffff:192.168.100.71]
Dec 14 10:41:19 storm pop3d: LOGOUT, user=benson, ip=[::ffff:192.168.100.71], top=0, retr=3688

The third line indicates the connection timed out without a proper logout. I tried to set the time-out time to be a longer one in outlook. It seems not to work for me. I feel that while the email server is serving the first pop3 session - a transfer process is launched, the second pop3 session from outlook to the same account actually confuses the server. The server may think the first session failed somehow, and therefore, it terminates the first session and starts the transfer procedure again for the second one. The result is my emails are getting duplicated, and both outlook and email server getting time-out errors.


Any help here?

Benson





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