Re: KMail downloads
"Louis Hinman" <[email protected]>
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Thanks for the tip, Ingo. I think I may indeed have an intermittent loose Ethernet connection. Never thought of that! Best Regards, Lou Hinman -----Original Message----- From: Ingo Klöcker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 5:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [kdepim-users] Re: KMail downloads On Thursday 28 July 2011, Louis Hinman wrote: > I have a small home Ethernet network. One machine is running > Slackware Linux 13.0, KDE 4.2.4 and KMail 1.11.4 and Firefox. The > other runs Windows XP. Hmm. This version of KMail is ancient. :-) > I recently changed my ISP to Time-Warner and I have a broadband > connection to the Internet. Everything was working normally for 3 > months, but suddenly email downloads from Time-Warner's Road Runner > POP server started to get erratic. Sometimes rebooting help, but > sometimes not. > > I can usually ping the POP server, and I can always download my email > from the Windows machine, so it appears there is nothing wrong on the > server side. I can generally send email (although it appears to be a > little slow, and sometimes a perfectly ordinary email gets stuck in > the outbox). > > Coincidentally, Firefox on the Linux box is also behaving erratically. > HTML processing get's stuck on "Waiting for xyz.com...". HTML > requests do not time out at the server, but the page never comes. > Again, rebooting sometimes helps and sometimes doesn 't. (Firefox on > the Windows machine works normally.) > > The fact that I have problems with *both* KMail *and* Firefox makes > me suspect there is a problem with the underlying TCP/IP plumbing on > the Linux machine. Is there a buffer overflowing somewhere? A > corrupted cache? Is there a log file I can look at? To me this sounds more like a hardware problem than a software problem. Did you check the network cable and the network connectors? Regards, Ingo _______________________________________________ KDE PIM users mailing list Subscription management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users