Andrew Gargan wrote:> Hi
>
> I am having problems with users accessing their maildir mail stores
> through dovecot
> I am working on version 0.99.11-1 (on fedora core)
At the very least, you should look for version 0.99.14, as there were a
considerable number of fixes between these versions.
If possible, current wisdom is to recommend the 1.0-stable branch, which
has far too many improvements to list here.
> It seems to be when the email size is large (450KB +)
Are you using mbox or Maildir storage?
> The errors are (the server disconnected unexpectedly)
> Have read through logs and looked for clues but am just getting no
where ...
Do you have logging turned up full?
> Have turned on the three Outlook and Outlook Express workarounds I found
> but no luck.
Heh... I turned these _off_ last week... but we have a company policy
that OutLoo is not allowed. If people complain to me, I get to tell
them they can't be having problems with it, because they can't be using
it. Ah, the joys of having Engineers as company directors. :)
> All the linux boxes here seem to be able to handle things fine ...
> (kmail evolution etc.)
>
> Thunderbird is also giving me hassles when trying to pull large mail files.
Almost all my users run Thunderbird, no problems. Even when marketing
decides to send a 9MB file to someone.
> The server is a 2.8 P4 HT with 1024 MB RAM 200GB SATA RAID.
> +- 7 domains and +-1200 users.
Plenty of grunt, then. I'm assuming some Linux variant... FC perhaps?
> Squirrel Mail seems fine and users are using that to get around the
> problem for now but I really need the pop3 access working ...
Such a popular tool... if only it weren't written in PHP.
> My MTA is postfix and I am using virtual mailboxes using mysql_lookups.
>
> I am also running MailScanner and ClamAV and SpamAssassin (using the
> hold queue method)
For once, someone providing an excess of information. Good work :)
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Curtis Maloney