[Novalug] POP-3 occasional hang-up
Beartooth
beartooth@Beartooth.Info
Wed Apr 16 17:24:22 EDT 2014
On Wed, 16 Apr 2014, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> [ Windows question, but Linux server related :) ]
>
> My wife Gundi's Outlook pulls her email from our mail
> server using POP-3. Occasionally things stop flowing
> and I am able to "fix" the problem by deleting the
> cache file ".gundi.cache" in /var/mail. It gets
> recreated the next time Outlook requests mail.
>
> She pays me to do these things, but I may not be
> around when she needs it.
>
> I don't see any, but is there a way that Outlook can
> be told to ignore/delete/recreate the cache so she
> can fix the problem herself?
I don't know that; but I know there are lots of
alternatives to Outlook that you might prefer to ride herd on,
from PC-Alpine to Opera, that run on M$.
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