POP3 Timeouts?

[Ken Murchison]

Blake Hudson wrote:
> I am having a problem where long POP transactions are being closed by
> the server.
> 
> I turned on per-user debugging, but didn't actually see the problem
> until I ran a packet sniffer(wireshark) on the server.
> 
> The transaction goes as follows:
> 1) Client connects/auths
> 2) Client lists mailbox contents and retrieves messages in order
> 3) Client requests a large message, server send the message
> 4) Client issues the dele command, server issues a TCP RST (client
> obliges with a Fin,Ack effectively closing the connection)
> 
> 
> No errors are present in the log and the per user debugging makes it
> look as though the client never issued a dele/quit.
> 
> This appears to be the POP timeout as increasing the timeout allowed the
> download of larger messages. Is this the way the POP timeout is supposed
> to work? I would assume as long as data is continuously being requested
> by the client the timeout would not be counting. Is the timeout counter
> instead based on the time between commands issued by the client?. I am
> using Cyrus 2.3.1

This problem was fixed in 2.3.2.


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Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University