The timeout here is not because of bad Microsoft code. It is because Outlook sends a retrieve command for the email. The older Norton/Symantec antivirus proxy would in turn give the retrieve command to the email server. Then AFTER getting the entire email and AFTER scanning it, it starts sending it to Outlook. But the time that passes between outlook sending the retrieve command and it getting the first bytes of the email is a very long time... hence it thinks it lost connectivity.
Then newer Norton gets around this by slowly sending blank lines to Outlook while it is retrieving and scanning the email, thereby fooling outlook into thinking it just has a slow connection and not that it lost connectivity. So, if you look at the top of your headers, you'll see a few blank lines if the email took a long while for Norton to download and process. ------------------------------------------------------------ Jason J Ellingson Technical Consultant 615.301.1682 : nashville 612.605.1132 : minneapolis www.ellingson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Frolick Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:46 AM To: Javier Navarro Subject: [xmail] Re: Outlook error 0x800CCC0F I have had this problem for years with Outlook and OE for our Dial customers, regarding large emails, or even a large number of messages in the mailbox, and we have never used XMail for our customer's mail store. Changing clients always seemed to prevent it, even when running an antivirus with a POP3 proxy. Microsoft uses some bad code for determining connectivity, that falsely claims disconnect even during an unbroken transfer. BTW, I'm not usually one to knock Microsoft products, I like and use them all the time, just not for email, I use The Bat!. -- Best regards, Charles mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
