Have you checked with your ISP to see if there is a "popper" process still
running for your userid..?  There was once a bug where certain ungraceful
disconnects would leave a popper process hanging around, and until it was
killed, no more mail could be picked up.

HTH,
Pierre

Stephen Liu wrote:
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Thanks for your advice.
> 
> I think that most likely the problem came from my OS - Mandrake 8.1
> 
> When I tried Evolution, on retrieving email from ISP it prompted :
> 
> evolution - mail
> (Process.  2623)
> has crashed due to fatal error
> (Segmentation fault)
> 
> I could not connect to the email server of ISP
> 
> B.R.
> Stephen
> 
> At 10:16 PM 11/11/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >Just a bit of help.
> >
> >Install the client Telnet RPM (Not the server)
> >
> >telnet pop3.domain.com 110
> >user username
> >pass password
> >
> >list  (lists the message number)
> >
> >retr n   ( show message, n being the message number )
> >top n lines   ( show the top 'lines' of message n )
> >
> >dele n  ( delete message n )
> >
> >quit  ( quit all changes )
> >
> >There are others but these are the ones I use generally.
> >
> >Dave.
> 
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