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

[Thomas Gramstad via Alpine-info]

Thank you Milt, those links were very informative!

Then I checked all the timeout values in my config:

I have Check incoming mail interval at 15 seconds, and
vaguely remember there was a reason for that many years
ago.

I have at least 4 TCP-related timeouts, but they are all
set at "No Value". I suspect I should do something about
that. What does "No Value" mean for those?

Then there is this one, which I have no idea what means:

User Input Timeout              = <No Value Set: using "0"> 

There are a few others (like "Rsh timeout") which sound
less relevant.

So there seem to be quite a few more timeouts in Alpine now than 
in 2016.

(By "logging into Alpine" I meant the OAuth thing which requires
me to enter a password that it has stored.)

I'll try the < up one level thing the next time the disconnect 
occurs.

But please advise about the 4 TCP settings above.

Thomas Gramstad


On Sun, 2 Feb 2025, Milt Epstein via Alpine-info wrote:


> 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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