Re: [Evolution] POP3 over SSL, error messages

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

make sure you're using 1.0.8 or 1.2 beta's.


On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 19:10, Mathy Vanvoorden wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 10:11, David Kvarnberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've been using Evolution for quite some time now. I fetch mail via
> > pop3s (POP3 over SSL). Every once in a while I get the error message:
> >
> > Error while 'Fetching Mail':
> > Could not connect to <my mail server> (port 995): Resource temporary
> > unavailable
>
> I have this problem too sometimes. It seems to me that the problem is on
> your mailserver. You probably check your mail every minute or so? I have
> two pop-accounts on the same server, which I checked every minute, and
> the server blocked my requests sometimes (prolly to many requests in
> short period)
>
> > Is there anything I can do to get rid of this message? It's quite
> > annoying, esp. since it grabs focus while I'm working on other stuff.
> > If I try fetching mail immediately after this error message, I usually
> > succeed. 
>
> I have increased the checking time between pop-accounts. Also I made
> sure that both checking times where different. The one account is on 3
> minutes, the other on 4. This way they don't check at the same time
> often. Of course for you it's enough to just increase one ;-) This
> solved my problem, I get the messages much less now, once or twice in
> day maybe, I can live with that :-)
>
> > Outlook clients on my network fetch mail in the same way, but without
> > any warnings/error-messages ;)
>
> That's because outlook doesn't pop-up error messages. If you watch
> closely the status bar on the bottom you'll probably see that sometimes
> there appears a red cross, indicating that there was an error...
>
> -- 
>
> Regards,
> Mathy Vanvoorden
>
>
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