Static IP DSL (Was: Re: Where is rlz.ne.mediaone.net?)

[jrv at vanzandt.mv.com (James R. Van Zandt)]

"David P. Greenberg" <bitco at tiac.net> writes:
>>What were you trying to use for mail under Linux.
>K-mail. And it too worked perfectly for the longest time. Then,
>slowly, and one at a time certain popsites would jam up on E-mail
>retrieval, causing the system to lock. I'd have to go into Top to
>kill the E-mail process manually to free the system. Eventually all
>popsites did it. no E-mail systems settings were changed. Hmmm.

I vaguely remember hearing about a problem with very long emails that
could not be downloaded before some timeout expired.  Maybe the K-mail
default is shorter than the M* app default.  You could try fetchmail.

		   - Jim Van Zandt
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