On Sat, 22 Jul 2000 04:40:10 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 20:05:41 +0000, Or Botton wrote:
>> Every now and then, insight cant get all the mail in my pop3 box.
>> When I try to download everything again, it gets stuck in the same spot.
>> Usually this means going to the pop3 manualy with telnet, and deleting
>> the letter that didnt came trought. (ofcourse, I read it first using
>> RETR command.)
>> What could be the problem?
>> Dont have this problem with other mailers. (Pegasus and Netscape 3.04g)
> Hello Or:
> I have this problem with other mailers, Net-Tamer, Barebones DOS, and of
> course also with MS-Lookout. The problem, whatever it is, is not an InSight
> problem.
> I very seldom encounter such a problem with any mailer, and, when I do,
> I use Telnet in the same manner as you to deal with the problem. This kind
> of problem happens to me about once every four months or so. It might be an
> ISP-related problem.
> I too am very curious as to what is the cause of the problem. I hope
> someone on the list might be able to explain it.
> Regards,
> Sam Heywood
Hello both of you,
I encounter such problems about once a week especialy at sunday
afternoons... my ISP has to less capacity to handle all the traffic so
the downloading crashes.
Especialy if large files are encountered like images.
But the ISP is not doing anything about it... they like it to be phoned
in again and again. That's the way money is made.
Very anoying is that the files downloaded are deleted if ALL the files
are in.
This afternoon 30 files were at the ISP and at #29 the flow of bits and
bytes stopped... try again! Three trials were needed and the inbox in
Arachne had nearly 90 files stored... a hell of a job to sort things
out.
Using M$ Lookout is worse.
But I wonder: who is deleting a succesfully downloaded file?
Is this the ISP or the mailer (Arachne).
If the deleting is Arachne related than I would prefer deleting each
file a soon as it has been downloaded succesfully and not after the
downloading of the whole queue. I'am aware that this procedure would
slow downloading a bit but would make downloading from a "nonservice
IServiceP" a lot easier.
Bastiaan
BTW: I'am working on getting another ISP working = troubles again!
I will try to send this one via new ISP...
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