Howdy, searching the archives i had not come across anything that seem'd to match my problem (sorry if i missed it) I've been using qmail with tcpserver for sometime now, and have came across a problem that is puzzeling me concerning users (dialups) not being able to get past a certain number of emails when receiving. Instead getting a "timeout" message. These users sometimes would have a lot of mail in the $HOME/Maildir/cur even when they claim they haven't been able to download it yet. We have ran across users who have had this problem, without having a large quantity of mail in cur/ or new/ as well, but not as frequent. Users who have a lot of mail, do not have any messages over 5k. (which is what i first thought) This happens sparatically, and I have been unable to recreate the error myself. But co-workers claimed they too have had it happen to them, as well as an above-average # of complaints. rc.qmail: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -R -H 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir & I have checked, and rechecked the portmasters which users connect to. 3ms ping across the network. The area does have bad phone lines (thanks sprint), but I can't see how this would affect a user who is connected@46000 Would dirty phone-lines cause this much problems? Does this sound familiar to anyone?