On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Denis Wee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
Usually EOF will work (Ctrl+D). But it depends on the protocol as well. If Ctrl+D does not work, Ctrl+\ will send SIGKILL. Otherwise, open another terminal `ps -A` to find the process id (pid), and `kill -KILL pid`. (: > > - Denis > > > > _______________________________________________ > Slugnet mailing list > [email protected] > http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > -- Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
