Nick (Keith) Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Christian DRESSEND wrote:
>
> > The problem is not whn looking for the server or for the messages, but
> > during download. It stops responding in the middle of messages in case of
> > large messages >100kbyte using dial-up, when the connection speed is low
> > (MODEM) so the downloads last longer.
>
> Ahh . .. I don't know about everyone else here; but I have never gotten big
> messages do download or upload via e-mail on a dial-up connection. I always
> assumed that the speed of the type of transfer used by POP1 (ASCII?) degraded
> over time.
No, there's no technical reason why retrieving messages via POP3 should slow
down over time.
The original poster should check his client software; various versions of
Outlook Express and Outlook can time out in the middle of a message download
if the last character in a TCP packet happens to be a period (.) . Don't ask
me why those clients care about packets, when the protocols they're supposed
to speak are just byte streams.
Charles
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