🚀 go-pugleaf

In message Wed, 15 Jun 1994 11:25:51 -0500,
  khomer@vt.edu (Kimberley Homer)  writes:

> Hello.  I work for the User Services department at Virginia Tech.  We use
> NUPOP 1.0.3 and NUPOP 2.0.1 in both serial and SLIP mode and are please
> with it, for the most part.  One problem that continues to plague us is
> users' computers locking up when downloading several messages.  We have
> suggested that they set their Advanced Network Options as follows:
> domain request timeout 10
> connect timeout to 20
> i/o timeout to 30
> retransmit timeout in ticks to 54
> max transmit unit to 512
> max segment we can receive to 512
> most bytes we can receive without ack to 512
>
> We also suggest that they set the XMS and EMS if appropriate to their
> systems, and suggest that they use a lower bits per second setting,
> especially for low speed modems.
>
> All of these things help occasionally, but we have several users who have
> tried everything, and just can't read more than three messages without
> getting locked up.
>
> It is possible that the problem is with our popmail server, but the other
> clients we use (i.e. Eudora) never have this problem.
>
> Can you help?  We would really like to continue using NUPOP.  We think
> it's the best program out there for DOS users.
>
> Thank you!
> Kim Homer
> Kimberley Homer  (khomer@vt.edu)
> Computing Center Consulting
> Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0214
>

I need to see a trace of a failing session.

-- Phil "Pib" Burns
   Northwestern University
   Evanston, IL.  USA
   pib@nwu.edu