I use kmail as my email client. I have configured it with a filter so that when I check for mail, only the headers of all messages are downloaded. I can then delete the spam at the server and select messages the full contents of which I want to download. I have been doing this for years with my Singnet POP3 email account and I could take up to 3 mins before the server closed the connection. Since a few months back whenever I take more than about 15 seconds for this process, I will receive the message from kmail that the server has closed the connection. I have another POP3 account with a hosting company and I am able to go through the headers for 3 minutes before the connection closes.
I have never set up an email server and I therefore do not know how they work. I suspect that the Singnet servers are configured so that they close the connection after more than 15 seconds of inactivity after someone logs in to his POP3 account. When I raised this matter with Singnet, they firmly denied that there is such a time-out setting on their servers and insisted that the problem lay in the way I have configured my email client. Does anyone else experience the same problem? Would the same problem occur for a different mail client like e.g. Outlook Express. I am not able to check as I do not use MS software. Is it the practice to set email servers to time-out after a certain period of inactivity? - Denis _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
