[plug] Dovecot POP3 problems

[Ben Jensz]

I feel like I'm going around in circles with this problem.

I've got a Fedora (core 1) machine setup as a mail server essentially 
with Dovecot as the POP3 server.  Now the problem is that one of the 
users is having problem retrieving email, same thing seems to happen 
with either LookOut or Thunderbird on their computer.  It checks for 
email and doesn't find any - even though there is email sitting there 
waiting.. occasionally the user will get a non-descript error message 
thrown up by their email client, but other than that there doesn't seem 
to be anything wrong at the user's end of things.  There are other users 
on the LAN with computers with an identical setup (i.e. they were all 
imaged) and they aren't having any problems at all like this user is having.

Occasionally this user will get a sudden downpour of their email all of 
a sudden coming through alright, but it hasn't done that for at least a 
day now.  From the logs dovecot shows this user apparently checking for 
new email fine (shows the POP3 logins) - but they don't get any new 
email - no errors are being reported.  I've checked the client computer 
over and back again and I'd be very surprised if its anything on that... 
and on the linux machine I've checked permissions on mail spools etc. 
and everything seems in order.

Anyone have any ideas?

TIA. :)


/ Ben