We have a user complaining that his Outlook repeatedly ask for his password before finally being able to connect and download his emails. I've tracked down the problem to his mailbox being busy, see below:
13:53:29 4 POP-667([67.68.76.6]) Sending +OK Stalker POP3 Server 1.8b8 at octave.hexact.net ready <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\r\n 13:53:29 4 POP-667([67.68.76.6]) Input Line: USER myuser\r 13:53:29 4 POP-667([67.68.76.6]) Sending +OK please send PASS command\r\n 13:53:29 4 POP-667([67.68.76.6]) Input Line: PASS mypass\r 13:53:29 3 POP {myuser} is busy 13:53:29 4 POP-667([67.68.76.6]) Sending -ERR Your account is currently in use\r\n 13:53:29 4 POP-667([67.68.76.6]) Input Stream ended 13:53:29 4 POP-667([67.68.76.6]) Aborting
It seems that Outlook does not understand the "currently in use" error and thinks that because the last thing it sends is the password, that it's the cause of the error.
Isn't there a way of reporting that error so that Outlook would understand it? Does CommuniGate Pro have the same problem?
Best thing would be to get rid of the busy mailbox, making it readable while it's being written to, but that would probably involve a major code rewrite.
It would require a major change in the nature of reality in order to work correctly. Stalker probably can't underwrite that.
This is not about another module locking the mailbox for writing, it is happening because the user had connected to the POP3 server and done something but did not disconnect properly. SIMS eventually times out that other connection, but as long as it remains open and loged into that mailbox, it is possible that there's still something on the other end of that first connection which will try to do something that will change the mailbox, like a DELE command. If SIMS were to allow 2 POP3 sessions for the same mailbox simultaneously, it would have no workable way to maintain consistency for that mailbox.
-- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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