Re: [cobalt-users] Qube 2: Email staying on server

[Malcolm McLeary <mim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stephen,

on 31/3/00 7:42 AM, Stephen Harlow at Stephen_Harlow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:

> My Qube has been set-up to download email from an ISP based POP account
> every hour and I fetch my mail from the Qube using a POP client. Everything
> worked well for a while then the mail stopped being fetched off the Qube so
> in desperation I switched from Outlook Express to Eudora. Eureka I cried, I
> could read my mail again... until now! Eudora now refuses to fetch mail
> even though telneting to the qube and checking sendmail shows messages are
> waiting! What is going on!!!
> 
> Help please, I'm running out of POP clients to try! ;-)

I gather from the "subject" that you leave email on the server ... doing
this with POP is not a very good idea.  As you have found, the client will
eventually stop accessing the mail ... I'd suggest its timing out before the
server can find the "delta" between read mail and new messages.

I'd recommend that you migrate to IMAP clients (e.g. back to OutLook
Express) and get your users to create additional IMAP folder to store email
on the server.  Users should maintain VERY lean inboxes else performance
WILL suffer.

Cheers,  Malcolm

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