OT: Mailwasher error message

I've been getting this intermittent error message for a week or so now
and wonder if anyone in either of these two groups can suggest a
likely cause and practical fix please?

When I run MailWasher I often get: "The connection to the incoming
server was reset, check your internet connection."

If I close the error window and use Check Mail again, usually it's OK,
or might take one more attempt. So presumably the error was generated
during one of the scheduled checks (I have it set for 15 mins) and is
waiting for me.

My connection seems OK (I'm using BT Broadband with no apparent
problems; I get my newsgroups OK in Agent, etc.) My primary email
server is pop.dial.pipex.com but I never get any replies from Pipex
Support.

Any suggestions would be appreciated please.

It *seems* that it's only started since I had to change my username
syntax (following the problems Pipex had with servers), as per this
post in the thread 'Pipex email authentication problem'.
news:(E-Mail Removed)

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

I'm using MailWasher with no problems - but I'm not using Pipex !!

Joskin

"Terry Pinnell" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I've been getting this intermittent error message for a week or so now
> and wonder if anyone in either of these two groups can suggest a
> likely cause and practical fix please?
>
> When I run MailWasher I often get: "The connection to the incoming
> server was reset, check your internet connection."
>
> If I close the error window and use Check Mail again, usually it's OK,
> or might take one more attempt. So presumably the error was generated
> during one of the scheduled checks (I have it set for 15 mins) and is
> waiting for me.
>
> My connection seems OK (I'm using BT Broadband with no apparent
> problems; I get my newsgroups OK in Agent, etc.) My primary email
> server is pop.dial.pipex.com but I never get any replies from Pipex
> Support.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated please.
>
> It *seems* that it's only started since I had to change my username
> syntax (following the problems Pipex had with servers), as per this
> post in the thread 'Pipex email authentication problem'.
> news:(E-Mail Removed)
>
> --
> Terry, East Grinstead, UK

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:17:45 -0000, "Joskin" <reply@newsgroup> wrote:

>I'm using MailWasher with no problems - but I'm not using Pipex !!

I've also found it to be a very reliable program. In the five years
that I've been using it, the only problems I've ever had were
server-side.

Terry Pinnell laid this down on his screen :
> If I close the error window and use Check Mail again, usually it's OK,
> or might take one more attempt. So presumably the error was generated
> during one of the scheduled checks (I have it set for 15 mins) and is
> waiting for me.

Either the server is too busy to accept more connections, or you are
perhaps already logged into it with another connection. Do you have an
application which might send an automatic email, such as your router
perhaps? Does your usual email package also log in every so often?

--
Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:05:56 GMT, Harry Bloomfield
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


>Either the server is too busy to accept more connections, or you are
>perhaps already logged into it with another connection. Do you have an
>application which might send an automatic email, such as your router
>perhaps? Does your usual email package also log in every so often?

Quite possible. Switching from simultaneous to sequential checking
may also help:

Menu: tools/options/connections/

and check the appropriate radio button

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:59:47 +0100, Andrew Price <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:17:45 -0000, "Joskin" <reply@newsgroup> wrote:
>
>>I'm using MailWasher with no problems - but I'm not using Pipex !!
>
>I've also found it to be a very reliable program. In the five years
>that I've been using it, the only problems I've ever had were
>server-side.

I've been using Mailwasher for years, too. Sometimes, when I've just
booted the system, I get a message saying that it doesn't recognise
the pop server. I click on "get mail" again and it works, unless the
pop server is down, of course. I also sometimes get a message telling
me that First Alert's database is not accessible, usually because it's
offline.
I don't have many filters except the standard ones for Chinese,
Korean, Arabic etc. I get little spam, and very few "hidden" emails
these days, because my ISP has improved its email filtering.
--
Robin
(BrE)
Herts, England

Andrew Price <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:05:56 GMT, Harry Bloomfield
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
>>Either the server is too busy to accept more connections, or you are
>>perhaps already logged into it with another connection. Do you have an
>>application which might send an automatic email, such as your router
>>perhaps? Does your usual email package also log in every so often?
>
>Quite possible. Switching from simultaneous to sequential checking
>may also help:
>
>Menu: tools/options/connections/
>
>and check the appropriate radio button

Thanks all. I'll give that 'Sequential' option a try. As it happens,
the error hasn't occurred at all since first thing this morning.

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:09:23 +0000, Robin Bignall
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

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>I get little spam, and very few "hidden" emails
>these days, because my ISP has improved its email filtering.

So have mine - in fact, I noticed a dramatic improvement in both my
French and German ISPs' spam filtering about a year ago. Does anyone
know if a new method of filtering (perhaps an improved "Cleanfeed"
type algorithm?) was introduced about that time?