Yea, my company has experienced a similar problem.  It WAS traced down to
the router.  I was getting "malloc fail"  which is memory allocation
failure.  Basically, a bad SIMM in the router.  I replaced the DRAM and all
is well now...  The symptoms were exactly the same as what was described.  I
don't know what router you are using, mine was a Cisco 7206.  If you're
running Cisco IOS, try logging in, enabling, and doing a "term mon" from the
vty.  Look for memory errors or any other weird errors going on on the
router.  Also try a "show mem alloc fail" command.  That'll show you if you
have any memory failure history.

Aside from that, are you running anything across NFS?  I found some quirky
things when dealing with my mail server cluster and NFS...

Good luck!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Steve Fulton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: qmail-pop3d alternative needed ASAP.


> I saw this once with an ISP.
> They traced it down to some networking router configurations.
> I never found out the details tho.
>
> Ken
>
> On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 12:08, Steve Fulton wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >    I need an alternative POP daemon to use that's compatiable with
> > Vpopmail.  This is urgent, so I'd appreciate any feedback on your
> > experiences with what is available..
> >
> >    FYI, I'm having 2 clients with severe POP problems -- basically their
> > POP sessions drop mid way thru downloading mail.  Unfortunately its not
at
> > one message or one type of message.  It seems to be very random.  If
anyone
> > has experienced this problem, I'd also appreciate some feedback.
> >
> > -- Steve.
> >
> >
>
>
>

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