On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Randall Gellens wrote:
> Which clients are they using? There have been reports of problems
> with Outlook. You might try Eudora and see if the problem still
> occurs. (You can get Eudora for free at <http://www.eudora.com>).
Eudora has the same 60 second timeout by default.
You would save a _lot_ of tech support handholding problems if Eudora
looked at the size of a message to see if it's still growing, rather
thgan taking the dain bramaged approach that a messge which takes
longer than 'n' seconds is indicative of a stall_timeout
Especially in these days of multi-Mb attachments over 56k (or
slower) modems. Even on a 10Mb/s LAN there can be problems, as I
discovered yesterday.
> You can adjust the server timeout by using the '-T' option, for
> example, '-T 600' to use a 10-minute timeout.
QPopper thankfully uses some intelligence and looks at throughput, not
per message download time.
AB
