RE: [SA-list] SMTP2POP3 exits with -999 after first try to pop the mailbox and mail is not yet there

[Robert Haerkens / Native networks]

Title: Bericht

Hello Dirk,

 

Time in ServersAlive is set 10 seconds longer than in SMTP2POP3. Problem is: both time-outs are around the 5 minutes and SMTP2POP3 quits after about 60 seconds. That is way I start debugging the problem. In SA I see the mailtest failed after just 60 seconds while timeout in both SA en SMTP2POP3 are on 5 minutes. Further debugging learns that SMTP2POP3 just checks the mailbox once (the Windows shows: no mail found...) then waits for next check and quits on the second check. If I decrease the nrofchecks to 3 or 2, so the mail has enough time to arrive in the POP3 mailbox SMTP2POP3 finds the mail on the first check and everything works fine.

 

I can give you the address and password of the POP3 mailbox that fails if you want (and when you are back from holiday).

 

Thanks for your support but don't let it spoil your vacation!

 

Greetings Robert

 

 

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Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Dirk Bulinckx
Verzonden: woensdag 30 juli 2003 8:59
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Onderwerp: RE: [SA-list] SMTP2POP3 exits with -999 after first try to pop the mailbox and mail is not yet there

And how is the timeout set within Servers Alive?  It should be at least the same (or more) then within the SMTP2POP3 section/ini.

 

Dirk.
Most of Woodstone's staff is currently on holiday, however support checks mail a couple of times a day (over a slow link).   This does mean that we are not able to do all "normal" support tasks.
We will be back, in full force, on August 10th 2003.

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Subject: [SA-list] SMTP2POP3 exits with -999 after first try to pop the mailbox and mail is not yet there

Hello,

 

Since the "crew" is on holiday I try the mailinglist. Maybe someone has had the same problem?

 

There seems to be a problem with SMTP2POP3. I use it to send a testmail and receive that mail again from a POP3-server.

When I use these settings: timeout=300 and nrofchecks = 5 it works almost always fine. SMTP2POP checks for mail for the first time after 60 seconds. But when I increase nrofchecks (to e.g. 10) it starts reading the POP3 mailbox after 30 seconds. The email has almost never arrived after 30 seconds. I can see this in de SMTP2POP3 window. Again after 30 seconds, when it tries to check the mailbox again it quits with errorlevel -999. I can't see anything in the window because this goes very fast.

 

When I add the parameter log=1 I just see the "sending message"-lines and not the "receiving message"-line (it would be nice to log all the output as shown in the SMTP2POP3 window...).

 

To me, it looks like a logon-problem to the POP3 mailbox. When SMTP2POP3 is waiting between 2 checks, is it logout in the right way?

 

Thanks for your answer.

 

Robert Haerkens