Topic: POP3 Problem

[Sterling]

I run outlook 2002 with about 20 email accounts. The problem I am having is that after upgrading to SME 5.6, outlook will successfully log in to and check the first 10 email accounts and choke on the rest, the first failure stating that 'The connection to the server was interrupted.' with the remaining failures stating that 'Outlook is unable to connect to your POP3 server.' I have temporarily split the 20 accounts into 2 send/receive groups of 10 each and that seems to work if I check them separately.

Is there a new limit to the number of concurrent POP3 connections allowed? If so, where can I find the setting? I have looked for hours but can't seem to find anything that has helped.

Thanks,
Sterling

[Sterling]

I failed to mention that all 20 of my email accounts are hosted on my local SME 5.6 box.

Sterling wrote:
>
> I run outlook 2002 with about 20 email accounts. The problem
> I am having is that after upgrading to SME 5.6, outlook will
> successfully log in to and check the first 10 email accounts
> and choke on the rest, the first failure stating that 'The
> connection to the server was interrupted.' with the remaining
> failures stating that 'Outlook is unable to connect to your
> POP3 server.' I have temporarily split the 20 accounts into 2
> send/receive groups of 10 each and that seems to work if I
> check them separately.
>
> Is there a new limit to the number of concurrent POP3
> connections allowed? If so, where can I find the setting? I
> have looked for hours but can't seem to find anything that
> has helped.
>
> Thanks,
> Sterling

[Sterling]

I finally figured it out. I copied /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/xinetd.conf/50pop-3 to /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/xinetd.conf/50pop-3. Then in the "if ($status eq "enabled")" section, after the open bracket, I added $OUT .= "cps= 50 1\n";. According to the message log guess xinetd was killing the pop3 server for excessive connections.

Newbie lesson learned: ALLWAYS CHECK THE LOG FILES FOR ERROR MESSAGES.

Sorry for wasting your time

Sterling

[Tom Carroll]

Thank you Sterling!  I was getting the dreaded "Disabling service too many pop-3 connections" error as well.

Tom