What version of POP (UW? etc., release?)? What O/S?
We have in the past seen problems with incorrect Content-Length headers on Solaris causing POP to crash and burn about like you described... but it has been a few years back. I also seem to recall that it was usually TNEF files or graphics that were causing the problem. Jon Kibler A.S.E.T., Inc. Shawn Button wrote: > We have a few Outlook clients across Outlook 2000 and 2003 that basically choke > and timeout when popping into the server. Basically a temp file is creating in > /tmp for the pop lock and it just hangs. Either the client receives a message > stating the password is incorrect (it's not, I can log in directly into the > server from the users account and access mail) or it keeps delivering over an > over again the same messages until it gets to the message it chokes on. I > believe that a file with standard attachments (xls, doc) is the culprit. > However, most e-mails and attachments work fine. If I delete the mail in the > user's queue then the queue becomes accessible again until a message that it > doesn't like comes in. > > I have deleted the tmp lock files, killed off the ipop3d processes that appear > to hang, restarted sendmail and mimedefang, deleted and recreated the user > accounts, restarted the server...all to no avail. ================================================== Filtered by: TRUSTEM.COM's Email Filtering Service http://www.trustem.com/ No Spam. No Viruses. Just Good Clean Email.
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