SBS 2008 POP3 Connector - AsyncConn timing out

It's the same Problem with my SBS 2008.

I have figured out that the amount of mails seems to be the problem.
There were four mails (15MB) at the email Provider.
I moved them into another folder. After that i moved one by one to the inbox and the POP3 connector was able to download them.

I have increased the POP3 Connector download timings from 5 minutes to 15 (default) and tried again.
This is the excerpt from the POP3 connector log.

[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: Beginning "Retrieve Now"...
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (AsyncConn[ pop.1und1.de:110 ]) Connecting to 'pop.1und1.de' on port 110.
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (AsyncConn[ pop.1und1.de:110 ])  GetHostByName result: srv_name = "pop.1und1.de" srv_addr = 212.227.15.178:110
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (POP3) [RX] +OK POP server ready H mimap7
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (POP3) [TX] USER username
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (POP3) [RX] +OK password required for user username
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (POP3) [TX] PASS ******
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (POP3) [RX] +OK mailbox "*****" has 5 messages (158834869 octets) H mimap7
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (POP3) [TX] STAT
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (POP3) [RX] +OK 5 158834869
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: Check for new messages: 5 (151 MB) total.
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (AsyncConn[ localhost:25 ]) Connecting to 'localhost' on port 25.
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (AsyncConn[ localhost:25 ])  GetHostByName result: srv_name = "localhost" srv_addr = 127.0.0.1:25
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (SMTP) [RX] 220 servername.domain.local Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Thu, 14 May 2009 14:29:12 +0200
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (SMTP) [TX] EHLO servername
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (SMTP) [RX] 250-servername.domain.local Hello [127.0.0.1]
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (SMTP) [RX] 250-SIZE 104857600
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (SMTP) [RX] 250-PIPELINING
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (SMTP) [RX] 250-DSN
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (SMTP) [RX] 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (SMTP) [RX] 250-AUTH LOGIN
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (SMTP) [RX] 250-8BITMIME
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (SMTP) [RX] 250-BINARYMIME
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (SMTP) [RX] 250 CHUNKING
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (POP3) [TX] LIST
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (POP3) [RX] +OK
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (POP3) [RX] 1 31767218
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (POP3) [RX] 2 31766884
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (POP3) [RX] 3 31766885
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (POP3) [RX] 4 31766941
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (POP3) [RX] 5 31766941
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (POP3) [RX] .
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: Downloading message 1 of 5.
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:13: (POP3) [TX] RETR 1
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:29:16: (POP3) [RX] +OK 31767218 octets
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:34:14: (SMTP) [RX] 451 4.7.0 Timeout waiting for client input
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:34:14: (AsyncConn[ localhost:25 ]) Connection to 'localhost' closed.
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:34:14: (SMTP) ERROR: "Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity.", hr=800ccc0f
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:34:14: Failure hrResult (0x800ccc0f) trying to connect to SMTP server 'localhost':
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:34:14: (no response)
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:34:14: EVENT: Cannot connect to the SMTP server 'localhost' on port 25. The error code was 0x800ccc0f. Verify that the Microsoft Exchange Transport service is running and that the Exchange receive connectors are properly configured.
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:37:11: (POP3) [TX] QUIT
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:37:11: ERROR: 0x800ccc05 ("IXP_E_NOT_CONNECTED") at d:\wssg_src\sbs_cougar_rtm\sbs\src\messaging\pop3\ixpbase.cpp:474.
[t 0] 05/14/09, 14:37:11: (POP3) [RX] +OK POP server signing off

Thank you for this.  Because you have included the POP3  log right from the beginning you can see that the timeout error occurs exactly 5 minutes after "AsyncConn[ localhost:25 ]) Connecting to 'localhost' on port 25" commences.  It seems that if cannot complete the download of a single email within that 5 minute windows then it times out.
This has nothing to do with the POP3 download interval timings, but this can produce problems of its own.  If you set the POP3 intervals too close together theh you may get the situation where it does not complete the download cycle before it tries  to start it over again.  It then gets stuck in a loop where it never manages to download any email.  This can happen with any POP3 connnector.  You should always make sure that the POP3 collection interval is long enough to complete the download of any mail you are likely to have awiating collection.  This is why 15 minutes is a sensible minimum.
I have posted this problem also on the Microsoft Partners board, so I will update this if I get any further information.
Chris

Because you managed to download the emails singly, I should rephrase the above:  It seems that if the connector cannot download the entire contents of one POP3 box within 5 minutes, then it times out (rather than a single email).

LWC_Bennon:
09.02.2010 at 08:17AM PDT, ID: 33587780
Actually, you can do this without using geeky commands.

Just open E.M.C (Start > All Programes > Exchange Management Server > E.M.C

1. Expand Organization Configuration and click on Hub Transport.
2. Click on Global Settings, right click Transport Settings and open the dialogue box.
     (I have set this to 40248, original was 10 Gays :) )
3.  Expand Server Configuration and you guessed it, expand Hub Transport. Under Create Filters, right click the Server (CONTOSO)  
 4. Click on the Limit's tab. This is where you increase the time limit to whatever you want. Note the time is in seconds... the default is 300. I've set mine to 1080 (18 Min)
 5. Right click on Default Server (CONTOSO), Windows SBS Fax SharePoint & SBS Internet Receivers to increase the mailbox size

If this doesn't work for you like it did for us, i will eat my shorts!!