[plug] Dovecot POP3 problems

[Luke Dudney]

Ben Jensz wrote:

> 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


Does the POP3 server show new mail in the user's mailbox?

telnet mail.server.com 110
USER <username>
PASS <password>
LIST
...
QUIT


Cheers
Luke