Yes, this is definitely a problem specific to M$ mail clients (no surprise
really!). As suggested, the solution is to increase Outlook's timeout
value to the maximum allowed or to consider using Eudora (much better than
Outlook anyway!) instead!
Regards,
Malcolm Kerec
At 05:56 PM 3/27/2001 -0800, Randall Gellens wrote:
>At 8:30 AM -0800 3/27/01, Gustavo Viscaino wrote:
>
>> I am experiencing a similar problem these days. The
>> box is a RedHat 6.2 with qpopper 3.1.2 in server-mode,
>> using Outlook Express as the client. Most people there
>> leave mail on the server so they can download the
>> messages at home. After downloading a message in the
>> morning, sometimes Outlook Express downloads the same
>> message(s) in the afternoon, making my life a hassle
>> ;-).
>>
>> I don't know if it's something broken with Outlook
>> Express (a bug in UIDL checking??) or something wrong
>> with qpopper (somehow I doubt it... qpopper's role
>> would be generating correct UIDLs and responding
>> correctly to STAT requests and something like that,
>> right? Randall? ;-)). Unfortunately, I didn't have the
>> time to test it with other mail clients and
>> Microsoft's Knowledge Base didn't have any
>> satisfactory answer. I enabled logging in Outlook
>> Express so I could see what was going on behind the
>> scene, but the log file is too big for a quick glance.
>> Does anyone have a clue of what might be going on?
>
>Are you using '--disable-status'? If not, I'd suspect the client.
>
>We see a lot of complaints about stuff like this, and always with
>Outlook/Outlook Express. Try having the affected people use Eudora (or
>some other client) for a while, and see if the problem goes
>away. (<http://www.eudora.com>).
>
>
>
>
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>Randall Gellens
>Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself only
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