Friends, I have intermittent problems downloading e-mail, and don't understand enough about how Eudora works to know how to handle them. I'm on a cable modem, using 4.2 Pro, and have 5 personalities. 3 of these are @home addresses, including one used primarily for rootsweb mail and PML and two that get very light use. One is an ibm.net address, and the last is an address I've set up for my church on att.net, for which I end up using a dialup connection occasionally. I was away for a few days and came home to over 1000 messages on my genealogy address and my ibm address, and all that mail downloaded fine. I leave my Eudora on most of the time, and generally, my mail shows up just fine; other than right-clicking on the church personality and stopping that one, everything works. But occasionally, and today is an example, the genealogy address balks. The error mressge is "Error reading from network Cause: Eudora got tired of waiting for the server (10100)" I've got 169 messages sitting there (since perhaps 10:30 last night) This has happened before, and it seems to clear itself eventually. But I'd love to understand why it happens. Is there something I need to tweak, or a problem at the @home server? (I've checked -- this list comes in over the address that is working, so I'll receive your responses.) Thanks! Wyn Achenbaum mailto:[email protected]

Wyn, the problem you list is with your server. If the ISP "times out", Eudora will eventually give up and log off. I feel that the problem is with the sheer number of emails that was stored at @home. That many emails may just have overpowered the server. You need to check it out with the people there. SgtGeorge At 12:24 PM 04/04/2000, Wyn Achenbaum wrote: *************START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT************* Friends, I have intermittent problems downloading e-mail, and don't understand enough about how Eudora works to know how to handle them. I'm on a cable modem, using 4.2 Pro, and have 5 personalities. 3 of these are @home addresses, including one used primarily for rootsweb mail and PML and two that get very light use. One is an ibm.net address, and the last is an address I've set up for my church on att.net, for which I end up using a dialup connection occasionally. I was away for a few days and came home to over 1000 messages on my genealogy address and my ibm address, and all that mail downloaded fine. I leave my Eudora on most of the time, and generally, my mail shows up just fine; other than right-clicking on the church personality and stopping that one, everything works. But occasionally, and today is an example, the genealogy address balks. The error mressge is "Error reading from network Cause: Eudora got tired of waiting for the server (10100)" I've got 169 messages sitting there (since perhaps 10:30 last night) This has happened before, and it seems to clear itself eventually. But I'd love to understand why it happens. Is there something I need to tweak, or a problem at the @home server? (I've checked -- this list comes in over the address that is working, so I'll receive your responses.) Thanks! Wyn Achenbaum mailto:[email protected] **************END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT**************