Mail trouble

[Michael J. Astrauskas]

Rick Rosinski wrote:

>  I have been having trouble with my email.  Every once in a while,
> neither Netscape or KMail will download all of the messages from my
> pop3 account on Mindspring.  Both Netscape and KMail willl get "stuck"
> trying to download the same message number.  That seems weird since
> they are separate applications.  So,  I have to go into Windows,
> download the mail with Outlook Express, and (unfortunately) have to
> delete teh mail from the server here.  After that, for a while, I can
> successfully download mail in LInux.  But all of my unsaved mail is in
> WIndows, and I really don't like that. Any suggestions?

That used to happen to me a lot with Geocities' POP3 mail.
I would connect to the server (telnet to port 110), use the
"user <username>" and "pass <password>" commands to log
in. "List" shows all message numbers and sizes. "retr #" gets a
certain message (just count which message Netscape or KMail
gets stuck on), and "dele #" removes it. "Quit" quits, of course.

With any luck, your current server supports that.

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 - Michael J. Astrauskas



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