"New Mail Check" is broken

[gomez]

On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 09:49:07 -0700 (PDT), Bill Wood wrote:

>On the Receive tab of the Account Settings page one can
>select "Check for New Mail Every" and then enter a
>period  of time. Well, this automatic function breaks
>after a few minutes or hours and hangs at the point
>where the bottom msg says "Connecting to POP Server ...
>(...)
>This is a clear bug and a serious one. First, I use
>this to disable an automatic disconnect by my ISP.
>(...)

I've never experienced this bug, but to avoid
the automatic disconnect by the provider you can
add an AT command to the modem string, I thing...

Mauro