On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 02:46:45PM -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:
> Kian Mohageri wrote:
> >On 5/16/07, Jacob Yocom-Piatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>am running dovecot-1.0rc15 on openbsd 4.0-release and experiencing jams
> >>if a user's undelivered mail has large files in it. i have not seen this
> >>problem with IMAP mail, AFAICR, only with POP3 accounts.
> >
> >POP3 involves downloading messages whereas IMAP involves leaving it on
> >the server. Are your clients downloading the entire message(s) or
> >just the headers? Is this a new problem or did you just install
> >Dovecot?
> >
>
> when doing POP3 i'm pretty certain the messages are downloaded, as per
> the protocol.
>
> this is a problem that has cropped up several times during the past 6
> months i've had this mailserver running. everything else works fine with
> dovecot and it's used by ~60 office employees at a company i work for.
Do you mean that downloading that particular user's mail stalls, or just
fails altogether? Or does delivering new messages fail?
And do I understand correctly you are using POP?
Joachim
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