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

[David Lang via Alpine-info]

Thomas Gramstad 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.


you can go back to the main menu or the list of folders and reopen the folder 
instead of exiting alpine

This is probably happening because you have a firewall/router that is timing out 
your connection between your client and mail server.

David Lang