[cobalt-users] Re: Qube3 + Outlook Express problems

[David Buxton <david.buxton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 3/7/01 4:38 am, Frank Hebbert <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm having a frustrating series of problems with a Qube3 running as a
> POP/IMAP + file server with client machines on Mac OS9 and Outlook Express
> 5. I've searched the web and had a look in the achives without any luck.

> The problems are :
> 
> (POP) Taking forever to connect to server, even in times of very low network
> traffic, server reported unavailable though still ok for file serving.

Can you do a POP3 session manually to confirm that things are not right on
the server?

Open a Telnet client (e.g. MacSSH) and connect to mail.server.com:110

You should see something like:
-> +OK POP3 mail.server.com server ready

TYPE user username
And press return, where username is a valid POP account on that server.

-> +OK User name accepted, password please

TYPE pass userpass
And press return, where userpass is the password for the account you used.

-> +OK Mailbox open

TYPE uidl
This lists each message in the mailbox with a message ID. Make sure you send
a message to the account first so you have something to play with.

TYPE retr 1
This reads the message with ID 1. It should happen pretty quickly (for a
regular, few Kbyte message). If you can see the message, then chances are
the problem is on the client side of things.

TYPE quit
This ends the POP session without removing any messages from the mailbox.


Otherwise, Outlook Express 5 Mac is not clever at IMAP connections. Try
deleting the IMAP account from the OE5 accounts list, to force OE5 to
completely empty its cache for that account. Then go back and create the
IMAP account again.

> (POP) Messages repeatedly being collected - every connection brings in
> another copy, all identical headers. Would immediately suspect outlook
> express but this happens with the same user set up on a different imac.

Are you using Outlook Express again or something like Eudora on the second
Mac client? Are you trying to access the same mailbox using both POP3 and
IMAP?

Hope this helps,

Dave.
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