[Sussex] Dial-up twice

[Mike Diack]

Crumbs!
I'm amazed, I never managed to get Freeserve to work with Linux, when I last
tried in in Dec 2002.
Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gavin Stevens" <starshine at gavmusic.uklinux.net>
To: "Sussex Linux Users Group" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:33 PM
Subject: [Sussex] Dial-up twice


> Hi all,
>
> Recently, when dialling-up to my Freeserve account, I have to dial-up
> twice before I can get my e-mails. I was using Mozilla when this first
> started. To see if it was Mozilla, I set up Sylpheed to get my Freeserve
> e-mail & the same things happens:
>
> Dial-up first time (doesn't matter whether e-mail client is opened before
> or after dial-up), attempt to receive mail will bring up "errors occurred
> while getting mail". X-term has messages saying couldn't locate
> pop.freeserve.net, etc etc.
>
> CTRL-C; dial-up again, get e-mails no problem. Can't work this one out - I
> suspect that something may have changed with the changeover from Freeserve
> to Wannabesomethingnoonesheardof. I noticed this evening that I no longer
> get the user login message after doing wvdial.
>
> I'm just baffled as to why it won't work first time but always works
> second time.
>
> Incidentally, dialling-up to my uklinux account (which I'm using as I
> write this) always works first time.
>
> Any thoughts welcome,
>
> Gavin.
>
>
>
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