Hi all
I have a Redhat 8 box running sendmail-8.12.8-9.80. I use both imap and pop3 for clients to donwlaod mails. imap is used by some application related stuff. The users use opp3 to download their mails. The problem started a yesterday when 1 user complained that he was not able to download his mails:
I noticed the following in the /var/log/maillog:
Dec 2 17:27:49 MUSTANG ipop3d[16579]: Login user=<<username>> host=<<IP>>.cox.net [<<IP>>] nmsgs=1/1
Dec 2 17:29:54 MUSTANG ipop3d[16579]: Connection reset by peer while reading line user=<<username>> host=<<IP>.cox.net [<<IP>>]
All subsequent login attempts have had:
Dec 2 17:34:36 MUSTANG ipop3d[16669]: Login user=<<username>> host=<<IP>>cox.net [<<IP>>] nmsgs=1/1
Dec 2 17:38:40 MUSTANG ipop3d[16669]: Command stream end of file while reading line user=<<username>> host=<<IP>>cox.net [<<IP>>]
Only this one user has been having this problem.
Also there is a similar problem with the user that is using imap to poll a mailbox. He is however able to poll the mailbox and retrieve the mail.
What could be the cause of this? And how can I rectify this?
I did so some resaerch and could not find a satisfactory answer. The one answer I got was from
http://www.polarhome.com:793/manual/...evel-2001a/FAQ
Said that this was due to the client not terminating the connection properly! But then how could it have started suddenly. The user has always been using the saem mail client for polling his mailbox\ (outlook express 6).
Thanx
KS