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

[Barry Landy via Alpine-info]

I have exactly the same problem for exactly the same reason. 

Not due to mail check interval as that was already large.

I am extremely interested to know if any of you get anywhere with 
setting timeout values.


On Sun, 2 Feb 2025, Thomas Gramstad via Alpine-info wrote:


:>

:>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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