Twice I've had OE6 give me the following error :

An unknown error has occurred. ' Server:
'pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No,
Error Number: 0x80004005

The first time, I went through SBC and did all their testing and
rebuilding of accounts with no luck. They're response was to call their
800 number. Before I could call my emails started downloading again.
That was a week ago. The same issue remanifested itself again
yesterday so I contacted SBC again. Again I jumped through all their
hoops with no rectification. To date I still cannot download my
emails. Any ideas?

On 30 Mar 2006 08:34:49 -0800, cbcrocker wrote:

Twice I've had OE6 give me the following error :

An unknown error has occurred. ' Server:
'pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No,
Error Number: 0x80004005

The first time, I went through SBC and did all their testing and
rebuilding of accounts with no luck. They're response was to call their
800 number. Before I could call my emails started downloading again.
That was a week ago. The same issue remanifested itself again
yesterday so I contacted SBC again. Again I jumped through all their
hoops with no rectification. To date I still cannot download my
emails. Any ideas?

Trouble with the servers:

| Mercury/32 v4.01b statistical report, Wed Mar 29 09:13:29 2006
| --------------------------------------------------------------
|
| MercuryD POP3 Client:
| Messages downloaded since startup 12 (8)
| Suppressed due to duplicate message ID 0 (0)
| Poll cycles since startup 45 (21)
| : password errors 2 (2)
|
| Mercury/32 v4.01b statistical report, Tue Mar 28 21:12:32 2006
| --------------------------------------------------------------
|
| MercuryD POP3 Client:
| Messages downloaded since startup 8 (0)
| Suppressed due to duplicate message ID 0 (0)
| Poll cycles since startup 21 (0)
| : password errors 2 (0)
|
| Mercury/32 v4.01b statistical report, Tue Mar 28 01:25:55 2006
| --------------------------------------------------------------
|
| MercuryD POP3 Client:
| Messages downloaded since startup 4 (0)
| Suppressed due to duplicate message ID 0 (0)
| Poll cycles since startup 21 (0)
| : connect errors 1 (0)
| : connect errors 1 (0)
| : password errors 1 (0)
|
| Mercury/32 v4.01b statistical report, Sun Mar 26 19:44:08 2006
| --------------------------------------------------------------
|
| MercuryD POP3 Client:
| Messages downloaded since startup 3 (0)
| Suppressed due to duplicate message ID 0 (0)
| Poll cycles since startup 21 (0)
| : password errors 2 (0)

The server I am using is 'pop.pacbell.yahoo.com'. That is an alias, and
will vary depending on the SBC region you are in. Your email address domain
is reflected in the third-level, the 'pacbell' in my case.

The problem appears to be very intermittent. My last log entry shows 2
errors in 21 poll cycles; but there are six ' email accounts
being polled on each polling cycle, so 2 errors out of 126 attempts to
access the POP3 server. More he

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15724853

Earlier than the log samples included, I was seeing a higher number of
errors:

| Mercury/32 v4.01b statistical report, Mon Mar 20 10:11:26 2006
| --------------------------------------------------------------
|
| MercuryD POP3 Client:
| Messages downloaded since startup 15 (13)
| Suppressed due to duplicate message ID 0 (0)
| Poll cycles since startup 163 (139)
| : password errors 19 (15)
| : password errors 19 (16)
| : username errors 1 (1)
| : connect errors 6 (6)
| : password errors 1 (1)
| : connect errors 2 (2)
| : connect errors 5 (5)
| : connect errors 2 (2)
| : connect errors 2 (2)
| : connect errors 3 (3)
| o.: connect errors 2 (2)
| : password errors 1 (1)

Note that this log includes a non-AT&T (SBC) Yahoo! POP3 server:
'pop.mail.yahoo.co.jp'. So it looks like a general problem with Yahoo! POP3
servers.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

I surmised it was a server side issue since the first time it
manifested itself it cleared on its own. Now a journeyman's question;
if I migrated to Outlook 2003 would something like this disappear?

On 30 Mar 2006 10:28:57 -0800, cbcrocker wrote:

I surmised it was a server side issue since the first time it
manifested itself it cleared on its own. Now a journeyman's question;
if I migrated to Outlook 2003 would something like this disappear?

Not from the posts in the forum I linked. If anything, MS Outlook 2003
seems to have worse problems than MS Outlook Express.

BTW, what makes you think my post is disagreeing with your notion that
there is a server problem? I don't _see_ the problem, but that is because
of the way I am accessing email. Mercury/32 is an MTA that I am running.
The POP3 client polls the POP3 servers, same as either MSOE, or MSOL. What
is different is that Mercury/32 downloads the messages to a local store,
then presets the messages for either POP3 access, or IMAP access from
computers on the LAN. For each polling cycle, if Mercury/32 encounters a
server error, it just logs the error, then proceeds to poll for the next
account. There is no need to retry because a new poll will be initiated
thirty minutes later.

What I was showing you was a list of server errors thrown up by
'pop.pacbell.yahoo.com' (or 'pop.mail.yahoo.co.jp') during message polls.
These are errors a user _would_ have encountered in a mail user agent, had
the accounts been accessed by a mail user agent.

My system isn't quite running as a proxy; rather, the users on the LAN
access Mercury/32 by setting their MS Outlook Express to use 'Megumi'
instead of 'pop.pacbell.yahoo.com', or 'smtp.pacbell.yahoo.com'. Mercury/32
is just one extra mail server in a chain of mail servers between the local
users and their correspondents.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

I wasn't diagreeing, it was just way over my head.