Re: [Hampshire] Cron and kmail question

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Author: john
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Cron and kmail question
Hi

Check what is on the web mail server. Your kmail problem is what I have on
when my freeserve account on orange gets overfilled with SPAM that is not
downloaded.

John Eayrs

On Friday 17 April 2009 21:06:35 Tim wrote:
> I have two cron jobs I setup in kcron, one job closes kmail down at a
> particular time and the other restarts kmail (more about why below). Apart
> from checking the system log file and can I tell if it has closed and
> restarted the program correctly?
>
> The reason I am stopping and restarting kmail is that one on the mail sites
> I collect mail from will just stop working, I won't receive any e-mails
> from them. Shutting down kmail waiting a couple of minutes and then
> restarting kmail and then all the e-mail come rolling in from that
> provider.
>
> The mail provider say they don't support kmail but have confirmed that the
> settings I am using are correct. How do I test what is going wrong with the
> connection??
>
> The mail provider in question is inbox.com (www.inbox.com), it is a web
> based e-mail service which offer forwarding to pop box which I have setup
> and work ok until it stops working. I have setup thunderbird on the same
> account and that worked flawlessly.
>
> The kmail version in question is 1.9.9, KDE is 3.5.10 and I am running
> Mepis v8 (Debian Lenny)
>
> Tim
>
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