Did you run anything else (like IIS) on port 80?

-----Original Message-----
From: Lance Julander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 7:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Strange Web Messaging behavior




Andrey Fyodorov wrote:
> 
> Hi all. I have a customer that is reporting this strange behavior in the
Web
> Messaging interface. Has anyone seen anything like this? ->

Sounds familiar.  See below...
 
> "I have been getting several emails per day, which when I try to open
result
> in a "Page cannot be displayed" error message from the browser 

We were having horrible problems with people getting "page cannot be
displayed".  This was actually happening across multiple Imail servers
(in different locations).  We finally were able to solve the problem by
moving web messaging off of port 80 and onto another port.  Why that
fixed it is anyone's guess.  Below is a message I posted to the Imail
list (but can't seem to find in the archive).

-Lance
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Hi,

We didn't really have problems using the secure mode, but we did have
problems deleting mail and also with the "page cannot be displayed"
message.  In fact, our problems were so severe that we started losing
customers over it.  Of course, Imail tech support was unbelievably
useless.

One of our SysAdmins (Hi Jim!) was able to finally resolve our issues. 
We've been able to cure the problem, but we don't know why our solutions
work.

-Deleting mail issue - We pulled one of the CPUs (we were running dual
processors on an Win2K Pro box) and the problem of not being able to
delete messages seems to have disappeared.

-"Page cannot be displayed" issue - Web Messaging was moved off of port
80 and onto port 8080 and the "page cannot be displayed" error
disappeared.  The SysAdmin wrote a program that monitors port 80 for
requests and automatically redirects the client browser to port 8080. 

It's a complete mystery to us why this solved the problem.  Regardless,
we're all stressing a little less these days.


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Lance Julander
Director of Internet Services
UNICOM
lance(at)uci.net - 541-388-8711

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