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Friday, 19 October 2001
pop3 goes the weasel

I can't check mail. For the past week, I have literally had to call in a minimum of once per day to ask my ISP to restart the pop3 server, because it keeps rejecting connections.

They keep claiming that "We'll keep an eye on it" and "I'm going to escalate this ticket so the level 2 technicians can find out what's causing it", but the problem occurs more and more frequently. Today, I've had to telnet in to my shell account, cat the raw mail files, copy the messages out of my telnet buffer, and paste them into my email program so I can reply to them.

This is no way to run a railroad. Fortunately, it's an ISP, not a railroad. But I would eventually like to be able to check my mail normally.

Posted by godfrey (link)
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