After upgrading our server to win2003 and our mail package to the latest
version, everyone in the office is experiencing timeouts and the OE quits
responding. The error basically says, "Server unexpectedly terminated the
connection...". Then it just sits there. I have two theories, and lets see
if anyone has any ideas.

First each of our office personnel checks about 5 different accounts. They
set the frequency to around 4 or 5 minutes to recheck. This much has not
changed from the old setup to the new setup.

The old setup was Server2000, 2 drives mirrored, 1 gig memory. Mailsite
mailserver 4 years old.
New setup is Server2003, Raid 5EE, 2 gigs memory, Latest version of Mailsite
mailserver.

This never happened on the old setup. Now it happens to each person between
5-10 times a day. Usually they just close OE, come back in and it works for
a while. Mailsite of course blames OE and suggested moving to Outlook.
They say we are the only ones they have ever heard about with a problem like
this.

Mailsite claims that recent advances in coding has made their software many
times faster than several years ago. With our newer cpu, memory, raid,
etc., my personal theory for now is the system outpaces the softwares (OE)
ability to keep address it. There is one person in the office who only
monitors one account and he never locks up or timesout, or gets his
connection terminated. Can we feed a quarter or halfsecond pause between
checking each of the accounts? Again this is just my theory.

Terry