On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 09:14, Michael A. Peters wrote: > Hi- > I use a mac.com address, have for a long time. > Every now and then when my mail client attempts to contact mail.mac.com > there is a authentication problem. > > The result of this is that evolution stops trying to fetch my mail every > 30 minutes like I currently have it set to, and instead I have a dialog > box asking for my pop password. > > The problem is obviously with the mail.mac.com server because the > identical thing happened to me when I used Sylpheed as my e-mail client. > > So this is not a bug- but I'm guessing that this problem doesn't only > happen with mail.mac.com but happens with some other busy pop servers as > well. > > I was wondering if there was an option somewhere to tell Evolution to > ignore these authentication failure problems, and just try again at the > next scheduled check. > > I subscribe to a lot of lists, and if I'm gone for a weekend and this > problem happens early on Friday, then when I get back on Monday I have > mailbox full errors and people get bounce messages and such stuff. > > So such an option to have evolution just skip a pop when there is an > authentication problem and try again at the next scheduled pop would > *really* be a nice option. > > Does anyone have a workaround to this problem?
It kind of depends on what the error you're getting is. > -=- > Also- so far I've posted to this list twice. > My post has never been sent to me by the list server, but responses come > in so people on the list obviously get my mail. > > Is this typical behavior for this list? > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
