I've been looking at the 'can only connect once to POP3' problem with three email clients (Outlook Express, The Bat! and AK-Mail www.akmail.com), three POP3 servers (pop3.lineone.net, ice.cream.org and mail.btinternet.com) and two operating systems (Windows 95, Windows 2000 - I don't have access to Windows 98, alas). >From various trials, and conversations on ICQ, the problem looks like something to do with the interaction between The Bat! and the Windows 2000 TCP/IP stack. The problem, as noted before, is that, with Win2K, The Bat! can only read the POP3 server once in a session; second and subsequent reads stick and the only cure is to close and restart The Bat! I also note that sending email via smtp.lineone.net or ice.cream.org also hangs if the corresponding POP3 server has been interrogated; thus the only way to send email at all using The Bat! is to disable the 'check on starting' and 'automatic check every N minutes' options and, in fact, not check email at all until you've composed and sent your email(s). What I've found: 1. All three programs send and receive email perfectly with Win95. 2. Outlook Express and AK-Mail send and receive email perfectly with Win2K; The Bat! fails. 3. Which POP3 server is used doesn't matter; all three programs work (or don't work) irrespective of which of the three servers are used. 4. The time between checking email twice on the same server doesn't matter; whether it is immediately after the last check, or several minutes after it, The Bat! fails under Win2K (but works under Win95) and the other two programs work under Win2K and Win95. 5. The Bat!'s settings (such as toggling 'send and receive at the same time') don't matter; I've tried all possible permutations and still see the problem. 6. An interesting discovery: I have a personal firewall, ZoneLabs' ZoneAlarm (www.zonelabs.com), installed on the Win2K machine. On the second and subsequent attempts by The Bat! to read any of the three POP3 servers ZoneAlarm catches attempts by them to access 'non-standard' ports (generally in the 1030 to 1060 range), raising an alert. There are no such alerts following the first attempt by The Bat! or with Outlook Express or AK-Mail. I will do whatever is needed to provide more data. For the moment, here's a session with Outlook Express to show what is flying back and forth in a working session (mail.btinternet.com omitted as it's similar to pop3.lineone.net). Outlook Express 5.50.4029.2901 POP3 Log started at 06/29/2000 09:12:24 POP3: 09:12:26 [rx] +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> POP3: 09:12:26 [tx] USER alastair POP3: 09:12:26 [rx] +OK POP3: 09:12:26 [tx] PASS ********* POP3: 09:12:26 [rx] +OK POP3: 09:12:26 [tx] STAT POP3: 09:12:26 [rx] +OK 3 3527 POP3: 09:12:26 [tx] LIST POP3: 09:12:26 [rx] +OK POP3: 09:12:26 [rx] 1 944 POP3: 09:12:26 [rx] 2 1599 POP3: 09:12:26 [rx] 3 984 POP3: 09:12:26 [rx] . POP3: 09:12:26 [tx] UIDL 1 POP3: 09:12:27 [rx] +OK 1 962234045.27814.ice POP3: 09:12:27 [tx] UIDL POP3: 09:12:27 [rx] +OK POP3: 09:12:27 [rx] 1 962234045.27814.ice POP3: 09:12:27 [rx] 2 962241836.31956.ice POP3: 09:12:27 [rx] 3 962264558.5839.ice POP3: 09:12:27 [rx] . POP3: 09:12:27 [tx] TOP 1 0 POP3: 09:12:27 [rx] +OK POP3: 09:12:28 [tx] TOP 2 0 POP3: 09:12:28 [rx] +OK POP3: 09:12:28 [tx] TOP 3 0 POP3: 09:12:29 [rx] +OK POP3: 09:12:29 [tx] RETR 1 POP3: 09:12:30 [rx] +OK POP3: 09:12:30 [tx] RETR 2 POP3: 09:12:31 [rx] +OK POP3: 09:12:31 [tx] RETR 3 POP3: 09:12:32 [rx] +OK POP3: 09:12:32 [tx] QUIT POP3: 09:12:33 [rx] +OK POP3: 09:12:38 [rx] +OK QPOP (version 2.52) at shaggy.lineone.net starting. POP3: 09:12:38 [tx] USER alastair.scott POP3: 09:12:39 [rx] +OK Password required for alastair.scott. POP3: 09:12:39 [tx] PASS ******* POP3: 09:12:40 [rx] +OK alastair.scott has 1 message (1069 octets). POP3: 09:12:40 [tx] STAT POP3: 09:12:40 [rx] +OK 1 1069 POP3: 09:12:40 [tx] LIST POP3: 09:12:40 [rx] +OK 1 messages (1069 octets) POP3: 09:12:40 [rx] 1 1069 POP3: 09:12:40 [rx] . POP3: 09:12:40 [tx] UIDL 1 POP3: 09:12:40 [rx] +OK 1 e6e9812616f9b7335a146dac1b18624f POP3: 09:12:40 [tx] UIDL POP3: 09:12:40 [rx] +OK uidl command accepted. POP3: 09:12:41 [rx] 1 e6e9812616f9b7335a146dac1b18624f POP3: 09:12:41 [rx] . POP3: 09:12:41 [tx] TOP 1 0 POP3: 09:12:41 [rx] +OK 1069 octets POP3: 09:12:45 [tx] RETR 1 POP3: 09:12:47 [rx] +OK 1069 octets POP3: 09:12:48 [tx] QUIT POP3: 09:12:48 [rx] +OK Pop server at shaggy.lineone.net signing off. I like The Bat! and want to register it, but obviously cannot do so with such a serious problem outstanding. Alastair -- -------------------------------------------------------------- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed as : [email protected]
