[OU] Mail Account "Freezing"

[Hugh Burns]

I have two POP3 accounts in Opera 9.02 running in WIN 2000, and sometimes
I have the same problem as you describe. It always occurs with the second
account. Similarly I must exit Opera to stop the process.
Do not know the cause.
Raleigh


On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:52:03 -0500, Ledgem <amd.ledgem at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I've noticed something interesting for the past few years and want to  
> know if anyone has experienced something similar. I have five POP3 email  
> accounts for use in Opera, and all of them (or most) are set to check  
> for new mail every 5-10 minutes. I've noticed that occasionally one of  
> them will get stuck in the "checking for new mail" state. While other  
> accounts will continue to check for mail, the "stuck" account won't  
> check for mail and it stops up the new mail/newseeds indicator as well.  
> Pressing the "stop" button from the Mail window does nothing. The only  
> fix for this is to quit Opera and then start it up again. This happened  
> on both Windows and Mac OS X versions of Opera. My girlfriend has  
> noticed this as well, also on her Windows and Mac OS X installs.
>
> The interesting thing is that this happens rather regularly only with my  
> university email account (same for my girlfriend - we attend the same  
> university). I've considered reporting this as a bug, but if it's only  
> occurring with my university's POP3 service then perhaps it's not worth  
> it (or perhaps I should report it to the university instead). Any  
> thoughts?
>
> David