Re: [Evolution] evolution forgets my pop3-password

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> i use evolution 1.2.4 on suse 8.1 and i've got an "freemail"-email
> account (yes, these ones you do not have to pay for as a private person
> without any corporation email address).
> a few months ago my email provider had the idea to install a timelimit
> so that you can just check/receive your emails every 15 minutes - if you
> want to check more frequently you have to pay...
>
> i told evolution in the preferences of this account, that it only should
> check mails every 16 minutes, that's not the problem that i write about.
>
> now if i check my mails using pop3 for more than one time in this 15min
> period (e.g. if i press the "send / receive"-button), i get an
> error-message:
>
> "Unable to connect to POP Server <pop3-name>.
> Error sending password: -ERR Zeitabstand zwischen zwei Logins
> unterschritten) FreeMail: 15 min, Club: 1 min)/minpoll timelimit
> Please enter the POP password for <account name>"
>
> [translation of german part: -ERR too little time between two logins -
> FreeMail (= email account for free) 15 min, Club (= pay version) 1 min]
>
> The box "Remember this password" is checked, but everytime i have tried
> to check mails twice within these 15 minutes i have to re-enter my
> password - also if i press "cancel" and try to receive mails a few hours
> later, then i have to re-enter it!
> it does not depend on whether i use "always ssl" or not in the account
> preferences, in both cases this appears.
>
> so is this a bug or could it be something like kind of a non-standard
> reply or behaviour by my provider's pop3-server which leads evolution to
> forget my password?
>
> or is there anyone else on this list who has got an email-account at
> https://freemail.web.de and can add some information on this / has the
> same problem?


IIRC that is a known issue but cannot be fixed -- it is a more generic
problem and not directly related to the 15 minute limit, though.

As the POP3 server just generates an undefined error, there is no way
for Evo to tell what caused it. A failed login due to invalid password
looks the same... That has been discussed some time here.


You have not really specified, which freemail service you are talking
about -- but from your last paragraph I assume web.de. According to this
news (German) you can use IMAP to check more often:
 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/uma-29.01.03-000/

However, as web.de does not generate proper header responds when asked,
you will not see any useful info in the mailbox overview using IMAP with
web.de.

Not really positive answer, but HTH

...guenther


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