Re: [sussex_mug] Re: 10.6 and Mail 4.4

[Graham Street]

Another thought ... your host may be blocking you for too many attempts at retrieving mail in a specific period. Most hosts have limits on the number of mail pickups, to stop people setting their mail packages looking for mail every 10 seconds (believe me, it happens!!). If your pickup interval is too frequent AND you're looking for mail from a large number of POP accounts, you could be triggering this. I have multiple email address and multiple accounts, but I have aliases (or forwarders) for all the addresses in any one domain name. And then I pick everything up in one go. Do you really need that many individual POP accounts? ... Graham on 12/12/2010 13:07 Ranulph Glanville sent the following: I often get the following problem. If, for instance, I have my laptop and my ipod touch both pointing to the same email account, then, if one has recently been using it, the other can't gain access. It takes about 20 minutes for my system to go neutral again, so I can access it using another device. If your emac is accessing email automatically and rather frequently, it may be blocking anything else from gaining access. The way I know this is happening is that I'm asked for the account password, and, when I put it in, I am asked all over again. I quit mail, wait a bit, and then relaunch mail and try again. So it might be that your emac is trying to access your mail account every minute or 5 minutes, or so. Just a thought: and not unlike other thoughts that have appeared this morning. Ranulph On 12 Dec 2010, at 12:36, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: Hi Peter I would be tempted for this domain to move to google apps hosting, you get 50 users free with 8GB per user. It should suffice for your 35 email addresses! You could set up one account for yourself, then add in the 34 other email addresses as nicknames (assuming you're the only person who needs access to them). Then add each email address as a comma separated line to your account in mail eg. Email Address : pe...@ethical.me.uk, i...@ethical.me.uk, ad...@ethical,me,uk. That way you'll be able to select which address you want to send from and have everything coming in as just one IMAP account. If more than one person needs access to each email address, just set each email address up individually as an IMAP account in Mail (after configuring each user individually on google apps of course). Or a mixture of the two methods. It's always better to collate email addresses into single accounts where possible, reduces the amount of connections made to the server. Regards Sa, MacAmbulance Providing affordable Apple & PC services Sam Mullen 07747 778022 http://www.macambulance.co.uk i...@macambulance.co.uk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to s...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.