From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 13:20:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5845C16A4D3 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:20:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.watkinscontracting.com (65-119-16-245.dsl.tfb.com [65.119.16.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0564943D75 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:19:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from noonans@watkinscontracting.com) Received: from watwks04 (wat-wks-04.watkinscontracting.com [192.168.100.103]) i09LJNV5026187 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:19:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from noonans@watkinscontracting.com) From: "Sean Noonan" To: Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:19:22 -0800 Message-ID: <007201c3d6f6$409c2660$6764a8c0@watkinscontracting.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_1073683163-11372-148" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 Subject: Perplexing, inconsistent POP3 problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 21:20:19 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1073683163-11372-148 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Greetings list, I have client that I've installed 4.9-RELEASE for. I'm tracking stable (last cvsup/build world/install world/mergemaster was about two weeks ago). I have a very weird, inconsistent problem that's driving me and the client nuts. Users use Outlook 2000 for email client. My first POP3 server installed was qpopper v4.0.5. Occasionally, users' Outlook task progress bar would not increment. After a minute or two the client would "timeout" and present an error message to the user stating that it couldn't communicate with the POP3 server. Looking at /var/log/messages, I'd see that the users' experience coincided with log messages such as: Jan 9 12:37:32 freebee qpopper[33490]: Stats: someuser 0 0 0 0 g1f-wks-02.somedomain.com 192.168.12.102 Jan 9 12:40:32 freebee qpopper[33506]: Stats: someuser 0 0 0 0 g1f-wks-02.somedomain.com 192.168.12.102 Jan 9 12:43:11 freebee qpopper[33517]: Stats: someuser 0 0 0 0 g1f-wks-02.somedomain.com 192.168.12.102 Jan 9 12:43:53 freebee qpopper[33519]: someuser at g1f-wks-02.somedomain.com (192.168.12.102): -ERR POP EOF or I/O Error <---------- LOOK HERE Jan 9 12:43:53 freebee qpopper[33519]: Stats: someuser 0 0 0 0 g1f-wks-02.somedomain.com 192.168.12.102 Jan 9 12:43:56 freebee qpopper[33520]: Stats: someuser 0 0 0 0 g1f-wks-02.somedomain.com 192.168.12.102 Jan 9 12:44:03 freebee qpopper[33521]: Stats: someuser 0 0 0 0 g1f-wks-02.somedomain.com 192.168.12.102 I figured there must be something wrong with qpopper, so I tried cucipop. Same error from the users' point of view. Looking at /var/log/maillog, I now see entries like: Jan 9 08:54:20 freebee cucipop[25008]: someuser 192.168.12.102 0, 0 (0), 0 (0) Jan 9 09:10:02 freebee cucipop[25116]: someuser 192.168.12.102 1, 0 (0), 0 (0) Jan 9 09:11:02 freebee cucipop[25120]: someuser 192.168.12.102 1, 0 (0), 0 (0) Jan 9 09:13:02 freebee cucipop[25126]: lost someuser 192.168.12.102 60, 0 (0), 0 (0) <---------- LOOK HERE Jan 9 09:18:02 freebee cucipop[25159]: someuser 192.168.12.102 0, 0 (0), 0 (0) Jan 9 09:25:03 freebee cucipop[28179]: someuser 192.168.12.102 1, 0 (0), 0 (0) Jan 9 09:28:03 freebee cucipop[28266]: someuser 192.168.12.102 0, 0 (0), 0 (0) Surely both POP3 servers don't have something wrong with them, so I decided to switch email client from Outlook to Outlook Express. Same problem. Then I tried to avoid M$ altogether and tried Eudora 6.0.1, but Eurdora seems to blow up on every machine I've tried it on. Googling for help, I saw a couple of issues relating to FreeBSD's TCP extensions. I used sysctl and turned them off, but alas it makes no difference. All other apps work fine. Mail server is in-house. I've never seen anything like this before. Any suggestions??? TIA, Sean Noonan ***************************************************************************************************************************** No employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Watkins Contracting, L.P., with another party by email without express written confirmation by an Officer of the company. In addition, any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Watkins Contracting, L.P. Employees of Watkins Contracting, L.P., are expressly required not to make defamatory statements and not to infringe or authorize any infringement of copyright or any other legal right by email communications. 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