"New Mail Check" is broken

[Ralph Cohen]

On Sun, 29 Aug 99 21:47:35, John Drabik wrote:

>As for "a reasonable workaround is to try again", that won't work -
>once your account is POP-locked, the lock won't reset until you log
>off of the system and wait some specified period of time, usually
>several hours.  This is a server side problem, and if the client
>can't get the attention of the server, then there is nothing the
>client can do to fix the problem.

Nope, this isn't the situation in this case, since clicking on the
Fetch button once or twice will allow the retrieval to take place. 
Trying to access the account while it is already being accessed by
another system returns an error code but does not hang up the retrieval
process.

Ralph Cohen

rpcohen@neurotron.com
PMMail/2 2.00.1500