How do the rest of you handle email across a network?
I have a client with two Macs running Panther, both accessing an
iiNet email account using Mail app. It is important to the client
that both computers be able to read email, so they are each setup to
delete email from the server after a week. For the most part the
system works OK, except that on occasions there are frequent
messages claiming that their login has failed, and it is necessary
to re-enter the password, which invariably fails several times
before succeeding again.
I am fairly sure that the problem arises from the two computers
trying to access the same account at the same time, although it's
hard to pin down a pattern. Do others have this problem on a similar
setup? I'm trying to avoid the option of having to set up their own
mail server (seems like overkill) but the problem is becoming very
annoying, and it seemed to have but much less so in Jaguar. What is
the best practice for this scenario?
In my experience iinet's authentication's systems seem to fall over
on a frequent basis, so anything that requires a password (logins,
e-mail etc) will occasionally fail.
Does it happen only if both machines are checking e-mail at the same time?
Have fun,
Shay
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