At 11:32 03.10.2007 -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote: >On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Fabian Cenedese wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I'm using xmail on a Linux Ubuntu in a vmware machine on Windows XP. >> That's just for trying out but should still work fine. It usually works well >> but sometimes a POP3 or SMTP connection from the mail client is not >> closed immediately. I can see it in the debug output that "POP3 client >> connection from..." is written and the corresponding "POP3 client exit" >> comes like a minute later. And during this time of course I can't make >> another POP as the mailbox is locked (I think). So I get client errors >> like "connection aborted due to timeout or other failure" or "connection >> refused". >> The client in such a case returns immediately, for him the connection >> is closed. >> >> Now I don't know if this is a problem with xmail (probably not), with >> Linux, with vmware, with Windows or even something else. I just >> wanted to ask if anybody has seen errors like these or might know >> what could go wrong. Is anybody using xmail in a vmware machine? >> Anything else I should look out for? > >You'd need to see what is happening at TCP/IP level, with tcpdump (or >similar) running *not* on a vmware box. >The whole xmailserver.org services run on a UML (User Mode Linux) hosting >at Linode, and it's working beautifully so far.
It may have been an IP address conflict. We have a switch, that also uses an IP address for himself for remote configuration. Unfortunately this address was nowhere noted and I accidentally put my vmware machine on the same address. I changed it and will do some more tests, hopefully without problems. Thanks bye Fabi - 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]
