Re: [Evolution] Connection reset by peer

[John Locke <j lockest yahoo co uk>]

On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 09:11 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > 
> > For the past couple of days or so, I have been getting  a 'Connection
> > Reset By Peer' when trying to pick up mail from my yahoo POP mail
> > account. Other POP accounts seem to be working fine.
>
> "Connection Reset by Peer" means that the remote end (i.e. Yahoo) has
> decided to close the connection in a brutal manner. It can be caused by
> many things - network issues, connection timed out, server being
> rebooted, server overloaded, server decided it doesn't like the colour
> of your packets, etc. etc.
>
> Since other POP processes are OK, I suspect it's Yahoo having problems,
> nothing to do with your end of things.
>
> P.
Apologies for the delay in replying. The problem has rectified itself today. So presumably Yahoo have fixed their
problem. I see that another poster (D Morrison) was getting a similar problem - so their issue may have cleared today as well.

I did try to contact Yahoo on a couple of occasions about the problem but never received a reply.
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