Hi all, I was having a problem today with checking mail on one of the mail servers for an account that I use. The mail server is running this POP3 daemon - Cubic Circle's v1.31 1998/05/13 POP3 (At least that's what it reports.)
I did a packet capture after noticing that the Connection Center showed that TB consistently hung on this one account when trying to check it. According to the packets, I connected, got an OK response from the server, sent username, got an OK on USER, sent the password and got one packet (it usually sends two to complete the acknowledgement) of a response back from the server. My settings for the account were "Leave messages on server for 1 day." I know that I had two e-mails from the previous day so I thought that perhaps this might have been the problem so I tried to use the Dispatch mail on server and I still got the same connection problem - only one packet of a two packet acknowledgement was returned. I changed the settings to delete mail from server and I connected and everything worked correctly this time. I got the two packet response. I also got the same two e-mails I downloaded from yesterday again. Shouldn't those e-mails have just been deleted and not downloaded again? When I looked at the Connection Center and TB was checking multiple accounts, including the one that I was having problems with, the Connection Center status message was the same for all accounts but it was different when I only connected to the one problem account. Sorry, but I didn't write them down. "Checking mail" was the message for all and I believe "Logon something" was the message for the problem account alone. I have now put the option to "keep messages on server" back on the account and checking the account works fine now. BTW, the two messages were messages from Yahoogroups and one had a .msg attachment (very small). I've kept the packets and the two emails if anybody wants to take a look at them. Let me know and I'll forward them privately. Hope this helps someone figure out what the problem is. -- Regards, Terry Using The Bat! v1.62r on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________________ http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
