On Thursday 09 October 2008 10:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Denis Wee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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? > > Perhaps they do this to reduce the load on their servers. If they have > indeed set this inactivity timeout, it would affect all other apps as well. > You can verify for yourself by emulating the pop3 protocol. ie. > $ telnet <pop server> 110 > user <userid> > pass <password> > > then wait 3 minutes to see if you get disconnected.
Hey, thanks Desire. I tried that several times and got disconnected after 25 seconds. So they really do set a timeout of 25 seconds (not 15 seconds as I had assumed). I also tried it with my other POP3 account and it did not disconnect at all. I tried to abort after about 4 minutes with ctrl-c but it wouldn't work. How do you abort the telnet command? - Denis _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
