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

[Milt Epstein via Alpine-info]

I didn't think I had anything to say about this because I haven't
experienced this error, but then I found a reference to this error
message in my saved mail, in an old thread on this mailing list (from
January 28, 2016).

So I went to the mailing list info url in each list message:

http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info

and went to the list archives.  But the list archives there only goes
back about three years.  But I did find a list archive at marc.info:

https://marc.info/?l=alpine-info&r=1&w=2

And then from January 2016:

https://marc.info/?l=alpine-info&r=1&b=201601&w=2

And then the thread in question ([Alpine-info] Best timeout settings
for connecting to Exchange server?):

https://marc.info/?t=145399947700006&r=1&w=2

You might take a look at that to see if there's anything helpful
there.

Also, people's suggestion to back out of the folder (using "<") and
re-enter it (rather than quitting Alpine) seems worth a try.

BTW, what do you mean by "log in to Alpine"?  (Because one doesn't
really have to log in to alpine.  Probably you're having alpine
connect to some mail server -- which may be relevant to getting that
error message; but it does seem that others replying to your message
have figured that out.)

Milt Epstein
mepstein at illinois.edu


On Sun, 2 Feb 2025, 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

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