>My clients often get an error message "An error occurred while
>contacting the POP 3 server, contact your server admin..." Then they
>have to delete one or two mail using web mail. Only then they can
>retrieve their mails using an e-mail client. Often the web mail does not
>allow to delete the mails. They remain intact no matter how many time u
>want to delete them. then either the mailbox or the UID file has to be
>deleted. Does anyone got a solution.
What's in the imail logs for the "POP3D" lines when these errors occur?
If the clients' dial-up links are bad with many tcp/ip errors and
lost connections, mailboxes can be left open in a locked state and
the POP3D server left in state not syncrhonized with the clients POP3 client.
Len
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