mail mystery

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, dep wrote:
> said Net Llama!:
>
> | Youv'e provided basically no information other than to state that
> | *something* is failing.  Are you getting an error message?  If so,
> | what it is?
>
> that's the problem -- all i know is that something is failing. it just
> times out, kmail throws its usual and misleading "no connection" error
> (which it throws no matter what the problem is, unless it's a rejected
> password).

OK, you didn't say that it was timing out before.  I'd bet that the super 
high latency on the satellite connection is leading to the timeout. 
Couple that with birds, chipmunks and random solar flares impacting 
connectivity to the satellite, and i'd say its perfectly normal to see 
this sort of problem in your configuration.  Hopefully someone else has 
other suggestrions, but i think you're fscked.

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