Hello Jason, Thursday, December 16, 2004, 9:56:36 AM, you wrote:
JJE> The timeout here is not because of bad Microsoft code. It is because JJE> Outlook sends a retrieve command for the email. The older Norton/Symantec JJE> antivirus proxy would in turn give the retrieve command to the email server. JJE> Then AFTER getting the entire email and AFTER scanning it, it starts sending JJE> it to Outlook. But the time that passes between outlook sending the JJE> retrieve command and it getting the first bytes of the email is a very long JJE> time... hence it thinks it lost connectivity. This error can occur with or without a virus scanner, especially on a slower dial link, and either a large number of messages or a very large message. -- Best regards, Charles mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
