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Re: Do you trust AMS POP server?

I wasn't using POP very much (just two low volume users were using POP), but I don't trust Apple's Mail server for anything at this point. It's unreliable and slow. After the database began to rebuild itself every two hours and some of my IMAP mail disappeared, I switched to post.Office, which I had used many years ago on NT. Not only is it much faster for IMAP, the configuration is relatively simple, with lots of control over various parameters.And it's free for 10 users.

Kevin Windham wrote:

I had various problems with the POP server. I ended up tracing the problems to the fact that I was using POP and using an external SMTP agent. It seemed to work fine if I used Apple's SMTP.

I didn't care for the lack of options with Apple's SMTP though, so I am currently using Apple's IMAP and Exim. So far it is working well. It also seems that Apple's POP works fine for users who receive a limited amount of mail. Less than 50 messages or so a day.

For those of us with significantly more, the POP server would give the weird error messages you describe, and it would eventually download the mail after multiple attempts, but it caused a lot of duplicate messages.

Kevin


On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 11:49 AM, Randall Perry wrote:

Running 10.2.3 on an Xserve. Setup AMS to use only pop, with smtp handled by
sendmail.

Everything was working well till this morning I got this error from
Entourage client on my G3:

"The POP server returned an unexpected reply to a command that Entourage
issued"

I stopped the server and ran:
sudo /usr/sbin/MailService -compressDB -n

The -repairDB switch noted in KB article# 106889 seems to have been removed.

Restarted and tried again, getting the same error. I setup the Mail app to
check this pop account and it worked fine. So there's some sort of
incompatibility with Entourage + AMS POP.

Given how popular Entourage, OE is, I can't have this happening. Been using
ipop3d on linux, solaris boxes and have never had a problem.

Should I just dump AMS POP?


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Randall Perry
sysTame

Xserve Web Hosting/Co-location
Website Development/Promotion
Mac Consulting/Sales

http://www.systame.com/
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