Bug with Inbox app and POP3 account
From: Gyan (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/14/04
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:24:37 -0700
SPB Pocket Plus's Today Plugin can cause lock-ups on the
6315 and is known by SPB Software House. I also get
lockups with Voice Command.
>-----Original Message-----
>I've got a new (2 day old) iPaq 6315, purchased from
CompUSA. Very few
>additional apps install, save SPB Pocket Plus and Voice
Command.
>
>Today, I went to add a POP3 account to the Inbox app.
Works fine, except
>when there are messages in the mailbox on the server.
>
>When I do a send and receive (when I know there is mail
on the server for
>me), it fails, with an error of:
>
>"Messages cannot be downloaded to your mobile device.
Make sure that you
>are connected, and that your email account settings are
correct. Then, try to
>download messages again."
>
>I've tracked this down a bit, since I'm in a fairly
unique position to do so (I'm
>the Senior UNIX Admin for my ISP). It seems that when the
client sends a
>"UIDL" command to the POP3 server (to return the list of
messages), it dies if
>the returned filename is longer than 40 characters, the
client sends a "QUIT"
>mid-stream, and never downloads the file.
>
>(The above was captured by a tcpdump running on the
server, and its output
>run through the open-source network analyzer Ethereal. )
>
>If I jump onto the server, rename the mailfiles to
something under 40
>characters, things are fine. Messages download with no
errors.
>
>Now, this is a fairly major problem, and one I've *never*
seen with any other
>POP3 client. We run Qmail and Postfix on our mailservers,
and deliver to
>Maildir format mailboxes, which add the fully qualified
hostname to the
>filename. That is a very common configuration.
>
>Any thoughts? Official word from Microsoft? (Oh, and
whats the proper
>venue to report this?)
>
>Thanks!
>
>Adam
>
>
>.
>
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