Mysterious "hangs" and multiple messages.

[Oleksiy Shostak]

Anders Norrbring wrote:

>>Zitat von Anders Norrbring <anders at norrbring.biz>:
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>>>I've noticed a weird problem lately. It often happens when one of my
>>>accounts contains 200+ messages.
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>>>I use POP3 access to this account, and when I poll mail, it "hangs" at
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>>some
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>>>point and after a minute or two it continues the download of messages.
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>>>At the next poll round, it's the same story, none of the messages on the
>>>server are deleted and everything is downloaded once again.
>>>
>>>My Cyrus-IMAP is version 2.1.15
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>>Tested with different POP3 clients???
>>Sometimes mailclients choking on malformed messages at POP3 download.
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>No, actually I haven't... I only use Outlook 2003, perhaps I should give it
>a try with something else next time it happens.
>
>Do you know what kind of messages (or "malformations") usually makes Outlook
>barf?  If so I could possibly set up a filter on the IMAP server to catch
>those..
>
>Anders.
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I have exactly the same problem with my boss PC, so I guess this is an 
outlook issue. Rebuild of outlook database might help.

Alex.

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