[P1] Mail question

[Jonathan Fletcher]

Wow. Thanks!

The ISP said that they had had complaints about their mail servers 
being slow and that they were adding hard drives to their array to free 
up some space, so it would run faster. I have since had the same 
problem, though. They did say to increase the timeout setting, but 
didn't know where it was in OS X. That's when I asked y'all.

I tried your terminal test and it worked flawlessly (once I reconnected 
my dropped airport connection). I haven't had the problem today, so 
I'll try it again when the little gremlin rears its ugly head again. 
(Apologies too any gremlins who may be on this list...)

I checked out the link also. Great information. Into the bookmarks it 
went.

j.


On Feb 10, 2004, at 3:04 AM, iBook List wrote:

> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:48:45 +0100
> Subject: Re: [P1] Mail question
> From: Zoki <zoki.news at linuxix.net>
> Message-ID: <BC4E4B6D.304E0%zoki.news at linuxix.net>
>
> Le 05/02/2004 23:11, « Jonathan Fletcher » <jfletch at aye.net> a écrit :
>
>>
>> One of my ISPs has the SLOWEST email servers. Three other accounts at
>> other providers have no problem, but this one keeps coming back and
>> asking for my ISP password, time after time. Occasionally it will
>> actually retrieve mail, but usually I have to give up and cancel it
>> until later. It seems like Mail is timing out and, getting confused,
>> asks for my password again, and again...
>>
>> There are settings in other mail clients to set the timeout. Does
>> anyone know how to do that with Mail in Panther?
>
>
> *** To find out if the problem is ycour connexion, your ISP... or just
> radiation affecting electronic equipment due to inter-gallactic 
> activity...
> try the following:
>
> 1/
> open terminal
>
> 2/
> type
>
>     telent my.isp.com 110
>
> server will respond with +OK
>
> 3/
> type
>
>     USER your_user_name
>
> server will respond with +OK
>
> 4/ type
>
>     PASS your_password
>
> server will respond with +OK
>
> 5/ type
>
>     LIST
>
> server will respond with the amount of messages waiting for you.
>
>
> If the server responds with -ERR 999 at any of your commands you made a
> mistake or it didn't understand what you want. If it takes too long 
> before
> you get a result to any of the commands, it can be the servers are 
> indeed
> very slow or your connection is bad...
>
> More instructions at
> http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/pop3telnet.htm.
>
> BTW, you're not saying what the ISP told you when you complained: You 
> did
> call them before writing to the list, right!?
>
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Zoran.
>
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