[Gllug] (OT) linux e-mail via BT home hub

[Alistair Mann]

Don Williams wrote:
>  This is simply a request for warnings/advice on what to watch out for
>  in setting up/using Evolution e-mail via BT's Home Hub (wired -
>  Infinity 1) - just in case a GLLUG member has any relevant
>  experience. Currently running Ubuntu 10.04 but will be installing
>  Debian 6 once it's out. Humble TIA. Everything seems OK at the
>  moment, with the exception that the connection seems to
>  die/disconnect most nights. Don

A number of my clients have been caught out by the appalling BT/Yahoo 
email service: should you check for email too often, it appears to put 
you in a time-out loop during which additional checks are automatically 
denied with a "username/password incorrect" response from the MUA. To 
the user, the password which is correct suddenly becomes adamantly 
wrong, so they try all the other passwords they've ever used, which of 
course are still wrong. Solution thus far is to walk away and try again 
after half an hour with the original password.

Broadband dying overnight maybe because you have an unfiltered 
telephone-connected device which 'phones home at night: sky boxes do 
this, as do some of those devices that pollsters sue to calculate 
viewing figures.

Cheers,
-- 
Alistair Mann
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