[Dovecot] Timeouts with outlook express

[Andrew Hutchings]

Hi Daniel,

Have you tried turning on th outlook-no-nuls workaround in dovecot?

Regards
Andrew

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 15:22 +0800, Daniel wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am using Dovecot 0.99.12.1 (just upgraded) on a site with about 1500
> mailboxes. One thing I have noticed is when the client outlook express
> is receiving a large mail via pop3 it gets a time out. There is traffic.
> If you click on the "wait" button in the dialogue the mail continues to
> download. 
> 
> This seem to relate to the "Server Timeouts" setting under mail account
> Properties/advance. If this setting is set higher the dialogue come only
> after this time has passed.
> 
> If the mail take a long time to download if say is very big the user may
> have to click "Wait" a number of time even if the time  out setting is
> set to the largest amount.
> 
> It funny because the mail is downloading, So the pop3 server has not
> stopped responding as outlook express say it has. Strange.
> 
> What is happening here? and is there a work around for it. Do I have a
> setting wrong. 
> 
> Regards
> Daniel ROwe
> 
> 
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Andrew Hutchings
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