[tpop3d-discuss] Duplicate emails/client timeouts

Chris Lightfoot chris at ex-parrot.com
Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:49:02 +0000


On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 04:29:41PM -0800, Matthew Trent wrote:
> Still getting a lot of complaints (including one from my boss, which is why 
> I'm posting about this again <g>) about duplicate emails and "clogs" (as 
> we've grown to call them). Only happens with MS mail clients. They all seem 
> to match up with a "net_loop: timed out client" message in the tpop logs. 
> Sometimes it seems to clear itself up, sometimes we have to go in and delete 
> emails for users to get email flowing again. It doesn't seem to be 
> duplicateable, and there isn't any particular pattern (not all messages with 
> attachments or certain strings in messages or anything I can think of). 

What timeout have you set? Have you tried raising it?

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