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Message-Id: <A73A7F4E-0B92-11D7-82F0-003065860680@parcproductions.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:24:12 +0100
From: Jappe Reuling <jappe@...cproductions.com>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Where does it go wrong?
On Monday, Dec 9, 2002, at 17:18 Europe/Amsterdam, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 04:26:28PM +0100, Jappe Reuling wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> Dec 9 16:55:58 mailserver popa3d[73054]: Premature disconnect
>>
>> We've been using popa3d on several servers/configurations and never
>> had
>> ANY problems so this is realy strange.
>> popa3d runs from inetd, inetd runs with just the standard '-wW'
>> options. No other error messages in the log files except the above.
>> The
>> clients fetching use winXP/outlook (all of them) and only a few get
>> this error (and a error in outlook).
>
> Is this Outlook or Outlook Express?
It's the almighty Outlook
> Most likely a client bug, possibly a known one.
I'm looking in that direction
>
> Which version of popa3d? One related workaround went in after 0.5.1
> (it's in 0.5.9):
popa3d-0.5.1 installed from the FreeBSD ports collection
> * Mon May 27 2002 Solar Designer <solar@....openwall.com>
> - Workaround a bug in certain versions of Microsoft Outlook Express
> (reported) where the client would abort on body-less messages which are
> lacking a blank line after the headers (valid per RFC 822, 2822).
> The second possibility to look into is a networking problem. tcpdump
> might help.
It might be, i'm still open to all problems >:-) The only thing is that
all other network trafic works fine (smb, http, ftp, smtp), I know that
that doesn't prove anything but it a good start...
Thanks so far.
jappe
> --
> /sd
>
>
Met vriendelijke groet,
--
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