Hello All.

Recently I have had occasional trouble with IRex's POP3 server talking to
my e-mail clients.  Here's a snippet from the current log:

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* 02:10:13 (9) Incoming connnection from router.bbsgroup (10.0.0.1)
  {wrapped} on 11/24/12.
] 02:10:13 (9) +OK Internet Rex POP3 server ready 
= 02:10:13 (9) CAPA
] 02:10:13 (9) CAPA
= 02:10:13 (9) APOP Postmaster xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 02:10:13 (9) User Postmaster logged in.
] 02:10:13 (9) +OK Mailbox locked and loaded.
! 02:10:13 (9) Connection closed: remote dropped the connection.

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Those "CAPA" lines get picked up as an error by the email client
and it drops the connection.  A second try will /usually/ succeed.  But
this is still curious in that it has not happened with this particular
email client ever in the past. (The Bat! Professional 5.1)  And it's not
only from one computer; the one at my job (with the same version of The
Bat! has been running into this quirk recently.  Certain other clients
ALWAYS get this error (specifically Thunderbird and Outlook/Outlook express
when using straight password log-in - not APOP - Outlook and its kin are
incapable of APOP password negotiation.)

Has anyone else seen this and does anyone know the root cause?  This is
where Charles would be really handy to have in the echo. ;(

Best regards,
Marc

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