-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 October 16, 2003 08:18 pm, The Other wrote: [..] > The problem was I would be reading and writing emails, doing some > surfing, and then get a popup alert telling me the POP server connection > timed out, when using Mozilla.
Set the mozilla mail application to check for messages at an interval less than the time out for the ISP mail servers. If the connection is not "active" most ISPs have their mail servers set to drop the connection after a specific interval. I believe Mozilla Messenger is set to check for new messages at 10 minutes by default. Reduce it to 5 or less and see if that keeps the connection alive for you. You can find that in Mail and Newsgroup settings or some such under the edit button when the application is open. It should be in the server settings section of the dialogue. > As a test, I'm going to use KMail for a while and see if the problem > returns. > > I'm using KPPP as my modem dial. If memory serves, there was a parament > in the setup dialog that said something about the PPP connection. Maybe > I need to increase the value to 100,000 or so other ridiculously large > number. That will be my next try if KMail starts to time out. Just try the simple stuff above first. It's been an awfully long time since I had to work through a dial-up connection, or even help anyone with one, but I do recall that changing settings in the dial up daemon can bite. Be careful. > Thanks for the interest, John. > The Other. > Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 09:20:52 up 26 days, 22:43, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.10, 0.09 A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. -- William Blake -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/kAv3G11CaRuZZSIRAk/sAJ9KsDLqDPDyUU5HiGFeSq+3W+17NACeMOjM NAk+agXV47lLCISdWw97z7U= =FjUW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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