From: "Hank Wethington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I have no idea what the problem would be... I've been a lookOut user since
> lookOut 97, have had to use off and on OE as well (damn I hated those jobs)
> and have never encountered this problem. I have seen messages to big to DL
> over a 56k line before the server/client timed out, but never an inability
> to actually get a message.
I have this about 3 times a month on this account which subscribes to a lot of
mailing lists, but only when Norton Antivirus is scanning incoming pop mail. I
guess I could disbale it and then to try to duplicate it. Is the original
poster using Norton to scan his incoming mail?
> You might try upping the timeout limit under the advanced tab,
Max always, still times out until I access the account with sqwebmail (which
reads maildirs directly I think).
> I always have
> mine set to the max anyways. If not use webmail to check on the offending
> message perhaps its just too big to get before things time out. If you don't
> have webmail on the actual server, you can try going to atdot.org (damn,
> just checked, its not working any more) or if you know of a webmail that
> will log into another pop box, you should be able to check on it that way
> and get rid of the offending message.
>
> If this is really an issue, I'd love to see some examples. I use qmail on
> all my servers and my clients use lookOut exclusively, and I've never had to
> delete a message for them. hmmm.
I have not been able to track down the offending mesage either, but I have not
tried very hard.
Rick Up
