Re: The 'cannot read email from POP3 server more than once' problem again ...
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:03:18 +0100, Alastair Scott wrote: snip AS 6. An interesting discovery: I have a personal firewall, ZoneLabs' AS ZoneAlarm (www.zonelabs.com), installed on the Win2K machine. On the AS second and subsequent attempts by The Bat! to read any of the three AS POP3 servers ZoneAlarm catches attempts by them to access AS 'non-standard' ports (generally in the 1030 to 1060 range), raising AS an alert. There are no such alerts following the first attempt by AS The Bat! or with Outlook Express or AK-Mail. I was about to ask you this and you volunteered it. ZoneAlarm is the culprit here. I wrote to the ZoneAlarm developers and this was their response: We are looking into resolving the problem with blocking access to mail servers, others have reported it too. A solution for now is to add the mail server to your trusted Local Zone. - Enter the security panel - Click on the advanced button. - Select add - Select host/Site - Enter the mail server name - Click next, confirm the entry - Click OK - Click OK Then you should no longer have a problem accessing the email server. I hope this helps. The above instructions do solve the problem and I hope this helps. :-) Most who have reported this problem have indeed been using ZoneAlarm. Another work around is to use a local POP server. XRay is a nice one. -- Allie Martin[ TB! v1.45 Beta/4 | Win2k Pro ] PGP Key: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=GetAlliePGPKey "Skiier: Avalanche looking for a place to happen. " -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re: The 'cannot read email from POP3 server more than once' problem again ...
Hi Alastair, From various trials, and conversations on ICQ, the problem looks like something to do with the interaction between The Bat! and the Windows 2000 TCP/IP stack. The problem, as noted before, is that, with Win2K, The Bat! can only read the POP3 server once in a session; second and subsequent reads stick and the only cure is to close and restart The Bat! I'm no expert and I'm afraid I can offer little help. Yet it appears to me that the problem is more than that. I'm using Win2k with TB! and I've seen no such problem since day one. I believe many people on the list use TB! with Win2k as well. Could you tell me how you get the detailed POP3 communications log? Is it a built-in function of OE 5.5, Win2k or from a 3rd-party utility? (I've just left OE 5, but never tried 5.5, and don't remember there's such function in OE. And Win2k is too new for me to know much details.) Too bad TB! can't be set to provide logs in such detail. If there's a freeware utility I can get to (or Win2k itself can) provide such detailed log, I'll be happy to test my own system for your reference. -- Best regards, Ming-Li mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re: The 'cannot read email from POP3 server more than once' problem again ...
Ming-Li wrote: ML I'm no expert and I'm afraid I can offer little help. Yet it ML appears to me that the problem is more than that. I'm using ML Win2k with TB! and I've seen no such problem since day one. I ML believe many people on the list use TB! with Win2k as well. The ZoneAlarm suggestion is interesting; problems with the personal firewall may well be the problem and I'll find out later today (as you can see I'm posting this with TB! so am on the "wrong" machine :) ML Could you tell me how you get the detailed POP3 communications ML log? Is it a built-in function of OE 5.5, Win2k or from a ML 3rd-party utility? (I've just left OE 5, but never tried 5.5, ML and don't remember there's such function in OE. And Win2k is too ML new for me to know much details.) Too bad TB! can't be set to ML provide logs in such detail. For Outlook Express 5.01 select Tools | Options from the menu bar, then press the Maintenance tab and, at the bottom of the tab, there's a 'Troubleshooting' section. Check the 'Mail' check box and, after you've run OE for a bit, search for 'pop3.log' on your hard drive. That contains the information received by OE from the POP3 server. Unfortunately TB! parses the information it received from the POP3 server before displaying it in the Log Panel (Ctrl-Shift-L) :/ (AK-Mail stores the information it receives from the POP3 server in encrypted form and can display it, via an inbuilt viewer, from within itself). Alastair -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re: The 'cannot read email from POP3 server more than once' problem again ...
Hi Alastair, [Your detailed instruction snipped] Thanks. I'm not using OE anymore. I was hoping it's a function provided by Win2k so I could check the details of all my network communications. Thanks anyway. -- Best regards, Ming-Li mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re: The 'cannot read email from POP3 server more than once' problem again ...
Allie wrote: AM The above instructions do solve the problem and I hope this helps. :-) AM Most who have reported this problem have indeed been using ZoneAlarm. AM Another work around is to use a local POP server. XRay is a nice one. It does - I can now use the three POP3 and SMTP servers ad lib. Many thanks! (One mild warning is that, when you enter the POP3/SMTP server details into ZoneAlarm, you have to be connected to the Internet first. ZA resolves the IP address of the server immediately so, if you aren't online, it complains with a rather obscure error message ...) Alastair -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re: The 'cannot read email from POP3 server more than once' problem again ...
Hello Ming-Li, On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 04:25:50 -0700 GMT your local time, which was Thursday, June 29, 2000, 6:25:50 PM (GMT+0700) my local time, Ming-Li wrote: Could you tell me how you get the detailed POP3 communications log? Is it a built-in function of OE 5.5, Win2k or from a 3rd-party utility? (I've just left OE 5, but never tried 5.5, and don't remember there's such function in OE. And Win2k is too new for me to know much details.) Too bad TB! can't be set to provide logs in such detail. Agreed and I wouldnt mind getting them for the smtp if wanted as I have smtp problems when logged on via one ISP... If there's a freeware utility I can get to (or Win2k itself can) provide such detailed log, I'll be happy to test my own system for your reference. Best regards, tracer -- Using theBAT 1.45 Beta/1 with Windows 98 mail to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am using FireTalk: 321338 ICQ: on request Website: www.phuketcomputers.com Our special website hosting/mailservers are now operational -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
