On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:50:14 -0500, "Robert Aldwinckle"
<robald@techemail.com> wrote:

>(posted from msnews; no access to USENET)
>"Gerard Bok" <bok118@zonnet.nl> wrote in message
>news:44121157.987948@News.Individual.NET...
>> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:28:30 -0800, "Jim Pickering"
>> <jim.pickering@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Gerard: It's hard for me to believe that you are the only user having
>>>similar problems. Does the mail provider have any support forums or
>>>technical assistance for you to go to?
>>
>> They reply that 0x800CCC0Fdoes not indicate any server site
>> problem but is probably caused by a single nasty email message.
>
>Have you tried using the IMAP.log (OE troubleshooting log for IMAP)
>to try to see what all that code might be representing?

Actually, I hadn't.
But now that I have checked both the email and the IMAP box: no
log file gets created at al !
There is also noting relevant in the event viewer.

>>>It truly sounds like a firewall
>>>problem but you say you have the appropriate port (143) opened but I wonder
>>>if something else is interfering such as an antivirus or antispam program?

Well, my stupidity was certainly interfering :-)
As Yitzak pointed out, it's no use opening port 143.
But even without any firewall the problems persist.

>> No. I can see (Ethereal) that the communication gets mixed up.
>> And in the seconds range, not in the minute or more that OE uses
>> for a time out.
>
>Can you tell from that the source of the "mix-up"?

Still puzzling on that one :-)
>
>E.g., any sign of Sam's scenario occurring?

Well, problems surely start with more than 5 mailboxes.
I also got word from the ISP involved: they did not raise the
number of simultaneous connections on that mail account.
But that shouldn't matter as XP Home is not able to make more
than 5 connections anyway, I think.
And problems also occur when there's only one single user active.

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Kind regards,
Gerard Bok