Re: [Evolution] Connection reset by peer

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 09:17 +0000, John Locke wrote:
> 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.

Maybe they're having problems with their email :-)

poc