Re: [NTISP] Postoffice 3.5.3 and Outlook workaround

Petar Nikolich ( (no email) )
Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:32:36 +0800

I suspect that it also a timing issue because if you dial-in
and set your email downloading and WAIT until it has been retrieved
it is much less likely you will get a 'blocked' email account.

Some of my users dial-in, starting pulling the email down and
start surfing at the same time. If they do not get a clean 33.6k
connection to our ras server they are more likely to suffer from
this problem which suggests the Outlook Express is timining out
on the busy line back to the server.

This would explain why lan users are not affected.

Possible solution?

Tools --> Accounts --> Account_Name --> Properties --> Advanced
--> [Server Timeouts]

Wind the slider along all the way to 5 minutes. This should keep
OE trying while the modem line is congested and maybe it can
squeeze the mail down during web surfing breaks :-)

Outlook Express supplied with IE5 does not fix the problem but it
may have a longer timeout default?

...Petar

----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Waldron <dan@internetworx.com.au>
To: <ntisp@iea-software.com>
Sent: Friday, 20 August 1999 8:14
Subject: Re: [NTISP] Postoffice 3.5.3 and Outlook workaround

> IE 5 seemed to help, we have had more of them since, we forwarded the
> offending messages on to software.com, the first one they said the message
> was fine and that they could retrieve it OK, the second batch I haven't
> heard back yet.
>
> It only seems to happen with modem users, not LAN users (as has always been
> the case here anyway)
>
> Rgds
> Dan
>
> ==========================
> Dan Waldron
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> dan@internetworx.com.au
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Christian Schmit <cschmit@vo.lu>
> To: <ntisp@iea-software.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 4:23 AM
> Subject: [NTISP] Postoffice 3.5.3 and Outlook workaround
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone who implmented the Outlook workaround
> > (UseSingleDot=yes) in postoffice 3.5.3 share the results
> > of this?
> >
> > Did it solve the problem? Did it cause new problems?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Christian
> >
> >
> >
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