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Index of Subjects Thanks Andrew. I have looked into my account settings and I don't see where I would make the changes to IMAP. Also I don't see where I can change the time out on POP3. I presume to do theauto set up as you outlined I would have to be setting up t/bird from scratch. What do you have on the safety of using TenFourFox? I am having difficulties upgrading browsers/e-mail software as I am using an Ibook G4 I am using t/bird 3.1.19. Thanks, Malcolm On 13/07/12 4:16 PM, Andrew D. Wright wrote: > > 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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