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Re: pop3 problem
- To: Linux-IL Mailing List <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>, <maxim(at-nospam)magnifire.com>, Oded Arbel <oded(at-nospam)geek.co.il>
- Subject: Re: pop3 problem
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:47:06 +0200 (IST)
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Oded Arbel wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Maxim Kryachko" <maxim@magnifire.com>
> To: <linux-il@linux.org.il>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 1:41 PM
> Subject: pop3 problem
>
>
> > Hi list.
> > I have a problem with a user (only one) who tries to retrieve his email
> via
> > pop3 and I see this kind of message in the log:
> >
> >
> > ipop3d[27848]: Login user=this_user host=his.host.somewhere
> [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
> > nmsgs=321/321
> > Nov 28 13:29:26 server ipop3d[27848]: Command stream end of file while
> > reading line user=this_user host=his.host.somewhere [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
> >
> > The host he's trying to work is some dialup in New-York.
> >
> > Neomail (perl web interface) shows him the first screen, but then nothing
> > happens when he inserts his username and password.
I'm not sure I read this correctly, but...
What about:
telnet mail.server.address 110
USER username
PASS secret
LIST
RETR 1
RETR 2
...
QUIT
At which stage exactly are there troubles?
>From your description it seems that neomail is not able to list the
mailbox content. Does neomail run on a computer near the server?
If this is a big mailbox (and espcially with WU-Imapd) then the processing
of the LIST command can take some time. In some severe cases it may be
more than the timeout of the client.
> >
> > What could be the problem?
> >
> > Thanks, RTFM highly appreciated.
>
> I've had this or a similar problem with POP3 from an Exchange server. the
> problem was with a few users (all sharing the same physical connection) and
> I think its related to high latency of the virtual circuit, where when you
> have lots of messages (321in your case, hmm.. nice number :-) the
> connection sometimes drops (for me it was always reproduceable - i.e.
> couldn't download the f^%&ing mail)
> my solution was two folds :
> 1. if you have local connection or just a fast connection to the server in
> question - just open that mailbox using the fast connection, download all
> the messages and forward them to the user in a way he can get at them
> (droping them in a zip archive and making him download it from somewhere was
> an acceptable solution for me),then delete all the messages.
> 2. if (1) does not apply - get a software that allows you to just LIST the
> messages and then download each seperatly (for example LingoMail by Dvir
> Software which is available under a shareware license). you then proceed to
> download the messages one by one (I found that using droves of five usually
> works too)
That highly depends on the size of the message. One message in the size of
1MB can be more of a toruble-maker than a batch of 20 messages of the size
of 10kb
> and delete each after you download it. If you encounter
> disconnetions (which you will probably will) then just reconnect and
> continue where you left.
If an imap service on the box is also available, then it can be used. but
you should configure the imap client not to download the whole mailbox by
default (I seem to recall that this is OE's default).
--
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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