Re: Thunderbird email access prob.

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For some time now Thunderbird version 1.5 (20051025) does strange things 
> retrieving email from my ISP POP server.
>
> Yesterday it worked fine.
>
> Today it does nothing when first starting Thunderbird and selecting the 
> appropriate inbox and then "Get Mail".
>
> After a little while doing the same will show "connecting" en then nothing.
>
> After still longer the message will show up "Connection to server 
> mail.att.net.mx timed out".
>
> Then sometime later, like right now, it will work and email is retrieved.
>
> Starting/stopping the firewall has no effect.
>
> Mozilla mail-news 1.7.12 shows the same symptoms.
>
> But sites like mail2web and Yahoo! mail can access the POP server always 
> and without problems.
>
> Anybody have a clue what this is?

Apparently not.
Neither does MozillaZine:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=368841

It is related to something common between Mozilla, TBird and Kmail: they 
all show the same hand.

So I reinstalled Sarge with my script on a new partition and the problem 
disappeared.

H