[Alpine-info] "[MAIL FOLDER "INBOX" CLOSED DUE TO ACCESS ERROR]"

[Bret Busby via Alpine-info]

On 3/2/25 03:22, Thomas Gramstad via Alpine-info wrote:

> The Subject: line is an error message that I get very often

> in Alpine, like several times per hour:

> 

> [MAIL FOLDER "INBOX" CLOSED DUE TO ACCESS ERROR]

> 

> When this happens, in the folder I am in I can still see the

> numbered list of messages, but if I try to open a message to read

> it, there is nothing to read. I then have to quit Alpine, start

> Alpine a new, and log in to Alpine, and then I can read the

> messages.

> 

> This frequent need to quit and restart is annoying. Is there

> something I can do to prevent, or at least reduce the number of

> such incidents? Like checking something more often, or less

> often, or switch something off?

> 

> Thomas Gramstad


I think it is due to the connection to the mailserver host, being broken 
or disrupted.

One thing to try, that I apply when connecting to my incoming 
mailserver, is using the back arrow (<) to go up yo the next level, 
then, press Enter/Return (<CR>) to go back to the Inbox.

I use Thunderbird as a webmail interface, to access my incoming 
mailserver, then, once a month, on the last day, I log in to my incoming 
mailserver, using alpine, to download and archive my incoming email, 
and, I frequently get that error to which you refer, and, I simply apply 
what I have said.

It is only when the procedure that I have described, does not work, that 
I have to quit alpine and log in again.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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