Hangs at "Getting number of messages..."

[Bill Wood]

This is similar to a frequently-noted problem that was reported 
Aug-Sept of last year. The thread was named "'New Mail Check' is 
broken". So far as I know, it was included near the top of the 
master bug list sent to Southsoft/Blueprint circa then. One 
request was to simply put a watchdog on the fetch request and 
resend it periodically if it's hanging. Nothing was done. I still 
have the problem as apparently do others. The frequency is about 
daily.

My instantiation usually hangs at the message 'Connecting to POP 
Server'. My sense is that the fault lies with the server, but it 
is a problem that PMMail could check for and fix. A manual fetch 
usually (but not always) works.

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On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 20:58:10 -0700 (PDT), Steve Wendt wrote:

>On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 10:53:30 +0100 (BST), Simon Bowring wrote:
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>>How often do you poll the mail server?  I have heard talk
>>of problems with some older linux tcp/ip stacks if you poll 
>>for mail too often (more often than about once every 30s 
>>ISTR).  I cannot confirm the truth of this!
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>130s.  As Ralph pointed out, many people have reported this.
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>I think there are 2 different bugs here:  
>1) timed fetches sometimes stop for no reason, and will start 
again
>after a manual fetch is initiated.
>2) fetches that are interrupted for whatever reason cause all 
subsequent
>fetch attempts to fail (i.e. the subject line).
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Bill Wood
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wwwood@lv.rmci.net

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