mail mystery

[dep]

said Net Llama!:

| 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.

i'd think that a possibility, except that the latency isn't so much a 
super-high time thing -- my timeset script, for instance, reports a few 
seconds, max -- and other unrelated email accounts work just fine.
-- 
dep

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