Dear Folks,
This problem of not being able to send or receive mail after an error
of any sort, such as sending for mail before the ISP connection is made,
or having an smtp error happen instead of the mail being sent, is one I
have seen and solved only by closing xc-mail and restarting xc-mail. There
are some kinds of error conditions which remain and do not clear.
By the way, I have NOT activated the "SMTP after POP3" option.
Everything seems to work fine except under the above conditions. I think
that your ISP needs to set some SMTP and POP3 settings differently.
Shalom,
John B. Brown.
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On Sat, 07 Sep 2002 20:10:54 +0100 (BST) David Pilgram said:
> Dear All,
>
> Has anyone else had this problem?
>
> I installed a system for a friend who has a particular ISP (surf3.net)
> here in England. I'm using the built in features of xcmail to send and
> receive email for this person, rather than install sendmail etc.
>
> xcmail sends email via this ISP and its smtp server fine. I have to smtp
> after pop3 for this ISP (this is a relivent point).
>
> xcmail detects email on this ISP, and you can see the mail being "transferred"
> in the pop-up box, but nothing appears in the POP3INBOX. I've used various
> ISPs,
> this is the first time I've seen this problem in any form. If the option
> to delete the mail after it has been collected is selected, this is done
> (and the mail is lost); but this was only done with short test messages,
> nothing to do with large mail exceeding the size limit.
>
> I even reinstalled, from scratch, no change.
>
> I therefore tried on my on linux box. I observe the same, but also can
> see other things. For example, if you dial into a different ISP, and try
> to collect email, sometimes the connection is refused - xcmail does not
> give an error message for this.
>
> An old-ish version of getmail does not pick up these emails either, but
> the perl script `poppy' can.
>
> The simple solution is to get my friend to change their ISP, but that is
> not so easy since they've had that box for some time, and given the
> address to a lot of contacts.
>
> Regards,
>
> David Pilgram
>
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