Patrick Patterson wrote:
> Well, I have to concur that this is a problem. I also run Post.Office, and
> I have seen this problem a number of times. It typically occurs with
> Outlook Express users, although a few Outlook users and actually one
> Netscape user as well. Deletinging the offending message from the mailbox
> directly always fixes the problem, but I have not been able to find a
> consistant trigger for the problem. While it does seem to occur more often
> with larger files, it is not every large file. The only thing I have
> noticed is that in every case the message was SPAM, but that could simply
> be a coincidence.
>
> I hope PostOffice gets moving on this - I was already unhappy with the
> pricing changes in the last few versions. It is a nice product, but the
> company behind it seems to be degrading...
>
> At 09:41 PM 7/25/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >I just wonder why we haven't seen it. I also support post.office at about a
> >half dozen other pops and businesses and have never run across the problem
> >myself so it's not persistent among ALL post.office installations... God
> >knows we have lots of outlook users... and a lot of our users are engineers
> >and architects who absolutely insist on clogging their pipes with large
> >drawing files sent as attachments in outlook.
> >
> >Not doubting what you say, just trying to help out. I don't have a dog in
> >this hunt... I support lots of other packages and they all have their,
> >ahem... "features".
> >
> > )
> >
> >
> >Good luck
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: ntisp-request@iea-software.com
> >> [mailto:ntisp-request@iea-software.com]On Behalf Of Geoff
> >> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 9:49 PM
> >> To: ntisp@iea-software.com
> >> Subject: Re: [NTISP] PostOffice 3.5.3 & Outlook again!
> >>
> >>
> >> This problem is persistent with Post.Office and we contacted them with an
> >> Email petition. The President responded that he would have his
> >> tech support
> >> work on this problem till resolved. Well, that was three months ago and
> >> they still have not fixed the problem.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: rkm <rkm@marshall.net>
> >> To: <ntisp@iea-software.com>
> >> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 6:26 PM
> >> Subject: RE: [NTISP] PostOffice 3.5.3 & Outlook again!
> >>
> >>
> >> > We use ASCEND MAX's here.. could it be your terminal servers?
> >> >
> >> > > -----Original Message-----
> >> > > From: ntisp-request@iea-software.com
> >> > > [mailto:ntisp-request@iea-software.com]On Behalf Of Dan Waldron
> >> > > Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 9:26 PM
> >> > > To: ntisp@iea-software.com
> >> > > Subject: Re: [NTISP] PostOffice 3.5.3 & Outlook again!
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > The only thing between our Max terminal server and our mail
> >> server is a
> >> > > 100Mbps ethernet cable. We get the same problem at both of our
> >> > > POPs, however
> >> > > after saying that, we don't seem to suffer the problem with local
> >> network
> >> > > e-mails so I don't think the server is overloaded at all, and the
> >> terminal
> >> > > servers are way under utilised. It seems to happen far too often
> >> > > and there's
> >> > > no correlation between peak and off peak period either.
> >> > >
> >> > > Outlook 5 seemed to help, but it's still a definite problem.
> >> > >
> >> > > Regards
> >> > > Dan
> >> > >
> >> > > ==========================
> >> > > Dan Waldron
> >> > > Internetworx Pty Ltd
> >> > > dan@internetworx.com.au
> >> > > http://www.internetworx.com.au
> >> > > Ph: 1300-300-005
> >> > > Fax: 1300-302-270
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > > From: rkm <rkm@marshall.net>
> >> > > To: <ntisp@iea-software.com>
> >> > > Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 10:28 AM
> >> > > Subject: RE: [NTISP] PostOffice 3.5.3 & Outlook again!
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > > We run post.office at three locations and we have no problems
> >> > > with outlook
> >> > > > and large attachments.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > My guess is you have a system latency somewhere that is causing
> >> > > a timeout?
> >> > > >
> >> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> >> > > > > From: ntisp-request@iea-software.com
> >> > > > > [mailto:ntisp-request@iea-software.com]On Behalf Of Dan Waldron
> >> > > > > Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 8:57 PM
> >> > > > > To: ntisp@iea-software.com
> >> > > > > Subject: Re: [NTISP] PostOffice 3.5.3 & Outlook again!
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > We've had enough of spending all day deleting emails,
> >> it's very fast
> >> > > > > starting to look like we dump post.office in search of
> >> > > greener pastures.
> >> > > > > Lately the support has been pathetic, I don't think two or three
> >> > > > > weeks for a
> >> > > > > reply to a support query is reasonable, fair enough perhaps if it
> >> > > > > were free
> >> > > > > support!
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Maybe we need an electronic petition! :-)
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Rregards
> >> > > > > Dan
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > ==========================
> >> > > > > Dan Waldron
> >> > > > > Internetworx Pty Ltd
> >> > > > > dan@internetworx.com.au
> >> > > > > http://www.internetworx.com.au
> >> > > > > Ph: 1300-300-005
> >> > > > > Fax: 1300-302-270
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > > > > From: Christian Schmit <cschmit@vo.lu>
> >> > > > > To: <ntisp@iea-software.com>
> >> > > > > Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 2:41 AM
> >> > > > > Subject: [NTISP] PostOffice 3.5.3 & Outlook again!
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > > Hi,
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > We still have a lot of problems with Outlook customers
> >> > > > > > when they get large mails on our PostOffice server.
> >> > > > > > (around 2-3 MB or more)
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > These customers use Outlook 5 which comes with IE 5.
> >> > > > > > I thought software.com said Outlook ver. 5 would solve
> >> > > > > > the problems they have with Outlook clients. To me
> >> > > > > > it seems that the problems are not solved.
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > Hopefully the next version of postoffice solves these
> >> > > > > > problems. Anyone knowing when version 4 of PostOffice
> >> > > > > > will be released? What features will it have?
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > > Christian
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > >
> >> > > > > >
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