Is this happening all the time ?? No matter what client or account ??? I have seen this behavior couple of times and the reason was always the same. A malformatted message that hangs outlook and also eudora sometimes. It seems like client did not understood the message was already completely recieved and just wait and wait... I tried with webmail without problems !! Finally, I edited the message on server and corrected all broken boundaries and voilá, suddenly Outlook had no problems in recieving the message !!!
=d0Mi= > ---- Original Message ----- > Date: 17-Feb-2003 16:49:29 +0100 > From: Dave [Hawk-Systems] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [vchkpw] RE: [Fwd: failure notice] Timeouts > > >FWIW, I had that happen where both the mail server and the client were > >on the same LAN. > > Not the case here. > > >The PC was a Pentium 100 (or 133), with 128MB of Ram. I think the box > >would just get too busy to deal with Outlook, and for some reason emails > >would be duplicated (Outlook would retrieve the mail, but timeout trying > >to delete it, so it would download the message again - hence > >'duplicates'). > > no duplicates, it is not downloading ANY messages... it times out trying to DL > the first. > > >Are you running an older machine, or maybe one with low memory, PLUS > >qmail-scanner/anti-virus stuff? That could do it.. > > Server is a P3-600, 1GB RAM > Workstation is a P3-550, 512mb RAM > No qmail scanner, etc... running on toaster. > > >All I ended up doing was getting them a $200 Wal-Mart PC (the Lycoris > >ones) and reinstalling the toaster on that. I did end up replacing the > >built-in NIC with an old 3c90x - The built-in one was getting buffer > >errors that, according to the 1997 (1999?) posts I found, were because > >of bad NIC drivers in FreeBSD.. > > Using Intel Pro 100 NIC... solid performers with FreeBSD > > >Seems fine now. > > Thanks for the try though. > > Dave > > > >
