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Index of Subjects Hi Malcolm. This is POP timing out. When you make a POP3 connection the inbox gets locked so it can't be written to while you are downloading your mail. If the connection gets disrupted, our server will wait to get a response from your mail client and the mailbox remains locked for this time. If you try logging in again while the mailbox is locked the new process will say it can't get a lock. There's a couple of suggestions for this problem. In order of effectiveness, they would be: 1. Switch to IMAP instead of POP3. With IMAP you are accessing the mail directly on the server so there is no mailbox locking to contend with. IMAP also offers the advantage that you only download the contents of a large message when you want it and you can click on other email while it downloads. IMAP simply works better than POP3. 2. If you are dedicated to POP3, go into your mail client settings and find a timout setting and set it to longer. Many mail clients by default will time out after thirty seconds and by setting the timeout to something like five minutes you decrease the chance of trying to access a mailbox locked by a stalled POP session. 3. Rebooting the computer shouldn't be necessary when you do hit this. Waiting ten minutes before trying to POP your mail again will work. All that has to happen is for our server to stop waiting on the dropped session, something which wouldn't take longer than ten minutes. On the good news side, we've now got things running so that setting up Thunderbird is automatic - you just need to be online when you do it. All you need to put in is your name, your email address @ chebucto.ns.ca and whether you want to use IMAP or POP3 and the rest gets filled in for you - secure settings, correct port numbers, all automatic. Setting up IMAP on Thunderbird has literally never been easier. On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Pat and Malcolm Bayne wrote: > Hi, > periodically I receive the following message: > "Sending of password did not succeed. Mail server mail.chebucto.ns.ca > responded unable to lock maildrop" > The only way I can get round this is by restarting my computer. > Any suggestions. > This mostly occurs when downloading an e-mail of over 1.0 MB. > I use an IBook G4 and Safari/Thunderbird, > Malcolm > >
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