vm-pop3d stops at second mail

[redesb]

When I get mail from vm-pop3d (1.1.7f-T6-DA) the MUA (Evolution) stops after the second mail and I can't get more mails until I cancel the mail retrieve and launch again, if I have 3 mails in mbox I need 2 steps to retrieve all mails, the same for more mails in mbox.

The server have FC3 (patched & updated), DA is updated to the latest 1.25 version and I read all the forum threads about vm-pop3d but I can't find anything about this problem, not a load problem, this test server have no users, nor domains or resellers, only the default admin created by DA install.

The '/var/log/maillog' file list:

Oct 6 09:20:11 davs1 vm-pop3d[4088]: User 'admin' logged in from 123.45.67.89, nmsgs=3
Oct 6 09:20:12 davs1 vm-pop3d[4088]: bytes: user admin 682 bytes
Oct 6 09:20:12 davs1 vm-pop3d[4088]: bytes: user admin 682 bytes
Oct 6 09:20:51 davs1 vm-pop3d[4088]: Session ended for user: 'admin' from 123.45.67.89, nmsgs=3, ndel=2
Oct 6 09:20:54 davs1 vm-pop3d[4089]: User 'admin' logged in from 123.45.67.89, nmsgs=1
Oct 6 09:20:55 davs1 vm-pop3d[4089]: bytes: user admin 5900 bytes
Oct 6 09:20:56 davs1 vm-pop3d[4089]: Session ended for user: 'admin' from 123.45.67.89, nmsgs=1, ndel=1

Any help be appreciated

TIA
Ramon

[cagriekin]

i have exactly same problem.

[mattb]

Bizarre... would be interesting to see if the 2nd poster is also running on FC3.

I'm using CentOS 4.2 with this versio of vm-pop3d and haven't had any problem.

[cagriekin]

i'm using centOS 4 too.. (sorry didn't metioned before)

[edzelf]

Same problem here, 2 messages followed by a time-out (CentOS 4.4):

Dec 21 01:51:40 main vm-pop3d[26865]: User 'x' logged in from 207.189.195.40, nmsgs=9
Dec 21 01:51:41 main vm-pop3d[26865]: bytes: user x 12536 bytes
Dec 21 01:51:42 main vm-pop3d[26865]: bytes: user x 20610 bytes
Dec 21 01:54:27 main vm-pop3d[26865]: Session ended for user: 'x' from 207.189.195.40, nmsgs=9, ndel=2
(session ended after time-out)
Dec 21 01:54:37 main vm-pop3d[26914]: User 'x' logged in from 207.189.195.40, nmsgs=7
Dec 21 01:54:39 main vm-pop3d[26914]: bytes: user x 2620 bytes
Dec 21 01:54:39 main vm-pop3d[26914]: bytes: user x 3057 bytes
Dec 21 01:58:38 main vm-pop3d[26914]: Session ended for user: 'x' from 207.189.195.40, nmsgs=7, ndel=2
(session ended after time-out)
Dec 21 01:59:37 main vm-pop3d[27325]: User 'x' logged in from 207.189.195.40, nmsgs=5
Dec 21 01:59:39 main vm-pop3d[27325]: bytes: user x 3083 bytes
Dec 21 01:59:39 main vm-pop3d[27325]: bytes: user x 2975 bytes
Dec 21 02:03:47 main vm-pop3d[27325]: Session ended for user: 'x' from 207.189.195.40, nmsgs=5, ndel=2
(session ended after time-out)
Dec 21 02:04:37 main vm-pop3d[27989]: User 'x' logged in from 207.189.195.40, nmsgs=3
Dec 21 02:04:39 main vm-pop3d[27989]: bytes: user x 1767 bytes
Dec 21 02:04:39 main vm-pop3d[27989]: bytes: user x 4002 bytes

[cagriekin]

dovecot rules :D

[jlasman]

You may be, by default, trying to get multiple emails at the same time (I have no idea what the setting is called in Evolution).

That causes slowdowns when using mbox for email, which is what DA uses by default.

The slowdowns can cause POP clients to give up.

Jeff

[Driesp]

I have got the same problem.
Is there already a solution?

[jlasman]

If it's caused by the problem I've mentioned, you can tell any email client to only accept one email at a time. What that setting is called differs from email client to email client.

On KMail, which I use, you keep pipelining turned off.

Jeff