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Date:	Tue, 5 Nov 2002 03:39:16 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Email server dropped

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Ray Davison wrote:
>
> I have been frequently getting the following message
> on two machines. I have check mail set for two minutes
> and sometimes the message comes that often. Usually
> it excepts the password and connects, not always.
>
> The mail server responded
> connection closed by peer
> Please enter new password
>
> Anyone understand it?

I get similar stuff from several different POP3 servers because I have a
little email monitor program (POP3 SPY) that constantly (every minute)
shows how many messages are waiting for download *AND* my email client
(Netscape) is set to check fairly often (every two minutes) to see if
there are any messages.

So what happens is this: One of them is logged onto the POP3 server
when the other one attempts to log in. The second connection is refused
by the server. The actual error messages issued by the program are
clueless because the programmers never contemplated that this would
happen so they don't offer a "somebody else might be logged on right
now" notice. (To be fair, I don't know how a programmer could determine
that some other program was currently logged onto a POP3 server. If you
telnet in you usually just get some kind of password error, at least
that's what I've seen. When you telnet to a POP3 server you get an OK
and then send a USER statement which always seems to be accepted and
then you send a PASS statement which is followed by an error response if
some other program is already logged in.)

Hope this helps,

- Peter

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