I posted the following question on the sun-managers-list:
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> Dear sunmanagers.
> I have a problem with LifeLine 2.0.
> Probably I'm being stupid, but having tried for a
> while to solve it, I now resort to you's.
> On our net, we have 4 SUN-WS's (all running
> Solaris 4.1.3), and about 40 PC's. The PC's
> have PC-NFS installed (some v. 4, some v. 5).
> Furthermore quite a few PC'users have installed
> LifeLine Mail v. 2.0.
> In general this works, but some users have problems
> retrieving mail from the mail-server. They can
> read the mail-file (that is, check if any mail is
> present), but not retrieve mail....
> Please note, that it works fine for a lot of users.
> When trying to retrieve mail, the following error-
> message appears:
> ' LL105W : To process your mail retrieval or check
> command, LifeLine Mail ran the appropriate mail
> retrieval program (pop2 or smtpretr). This program
> terminated the retrieval process prematurely for
> the following reason:
> Protocol error detected.
> The POP2 server sent back an incorrect reply to a
> command. This usually indicates a transient error
> oin the server. If it persists, contact your net-
> work administrator. '
> (I'm using the POP-protocol).
(POP2)
> What's wrong ?
> Answers, that solve the problem will be mailed in
> a summary.
> Thanks in advance.....
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Thanks for all answers, they were prompt and I was moved
by the willingness of people to help. Thanks again to:
craven@cg.emr.ca, ted@ags.ga.erg.sri, jason@pest.ctpm.uq.oz.au,
lemke@MITL.Research.Panasonic.COM, penrod@whiplash.er.usgs.gov,
cpumagic!mloewen and finally habicht@imes.uni-hannover.de.
It was Detlev Habicht from Hannover who solved the problem with
this simple remark:
SOLUTION BEGIN :
'You must change "net login" in one of the *.bat-Files in
c:\nfs to "net name". Then it works.'
SOLUTION END.
So it did (It's in the network.bat-file).
Jim (craven.cg.emr.ca) suggested that the check_user-routine in the
popd-program was poorly written, and supplied me with a fix.
Ted Nolan (ted@ags.ga.erg.sri) suggested shortage of memory on
the PC.
Jason (jason@pest.ctpm.uq.oz.au) suggested to change to SelectMail
which is the mail program following Lifeline. SelectMail uses the
POP-3 protocol.
Kennedy Lemke (lemke@Research.Panasonic.COM) also mentioned the
SelectMail-program, adding, that pop-2 is known to be 'flaky', and
sugesting me to change to the SelectMail despite the hazzle of
changing.
Mike Lowen (mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us) suggested missing user-
accounts as the problem.
Thanks again to all who responded.
Yours:
Morten Krabbe Barfoed
Danish Space Research Institute phone: +45 42 88 22 77 (switch-board)
Gl. Lundtoftevej 7 phone: +45 45 87 40 77 - 155 (direct)
DK 2800 Lyngby FAX: +45 45 93 02 83
Denmark TELEX: 37 198
e-mail: morten@dsri.dk or DSRISN::MORTEN
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