On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 08:06, erez avraham wrote: > i saw it happened only for 1 user when he tries to get all the mails from > his mailbox from a new computer, the mailbox is ~80MB > mail client outlook. the user can pop 35 messages and then outlook (or any > other mail client) freeze and this error appears in the log file
Outlook has a relatively short timeout, and 80 MB is a lot of mail. On first connection, Qpopper copies the mail spool while analyzing it for mail headers. This can take awhile, and Qpopper won't respond to the PASS operation until this completes. It sounds like Outlook is giving up before Qpopper is done.
