We have had similar issues and found this was related to people who have been accessing their broadband via a LAN (ie, they have an ADSL router with LAN ports and the user connects to it via a NIC in their computer). The problem turned out to be a setting that allows Windows to shut down the NIC when it is not being used.

 

If you go into DEVICE MANAGER and then into the properties, on the POWER MANAGEMENT tab of the NIC there is an option called “Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power”. Disabling this feature resolved our issues with this.

 

We have also had problems with Email Timeouts when Symantec Antivirus has been installed. Since version 9, SAV likes to install an Email Plug-in. Removing this plug-in has helped in some cases. Since we scan all emails at the server level for viruses, this plug-in is just overkill so we could remove it.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Chris

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Imail Admin
Sent: Tuesday, 22 November 2005 11:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [IMail Forum] mail client disconects

 

We've had some complaints recently about discounts in email.  That is, a

customer will have their mail client (usually Outlook Express) open, leave

their desk for a while (say, for lunch), and then when they come back, the

first time they try to click on something in their email, they get a message

that the mail server has disconnected them.  The second time they click, the

email works fine.

 

This seems to be a time-out disconnect.  That is, it seems the connection is

disconnected after sitting idle for a while.

 

We run IMail 7.15 on Win2k Server on our end.  The clients mostly run WinXP

Pro or Win2k Pro.  The complaints seem to be only from people using Comcast

home broadband cable to access the Internet.  Comcast claims that they do

not have a time-out function on their home broadband service, but I'm

skeptical.

 

So is there a setting I'm missing on our end, or is Comcast lying?

 

Thanks,

 

Ben

BC Web

 

 

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