Anyone else experiencing intermittent email password failures?

[jmbeach]

Netscape Communicator 7.0 - I think it's also known as Mozilla 5 - I get a 'busy' error message (I'll post the exact message when it happens again) then when I click OK it prompts for my password again as if I had just logged in for the first time. I have to cancel as it will not accept my password, then log in again with password - then it works, until it happens again.

I've been seeing it for about the last 3 weeks. I had never seen it before that.

New mail server.... Good.
Napster.... Bad.

[vonbrocklin]

Originally posted by landiserve
vonbrocklin, I use mozilla mail and evolution 98% of the time, I have never seen these errors, interesting.

Landiserve: if I recall from a previous post you are unique in that your service domain is on mail and not mail1, right? I could be wrong. But maybe this is why you never see it.

Admin: I am using Mozilla Mail 1.3 and also get the "server busy" error and sometimes it forces me to re-enter my password but not always. It has probably happened 15+ times today and I have it set to check my mail every 15 minutes. I also use Outlook, and get the same errors as everybody else there.

vonbrocklin, yes my main emails are on mail, so basiclaly we know it is a server thing, not a network issue.

[nigel182]

I experience the problem on mail and my client does too on mail.

nigel, I believe you are a new customer, therefore you will not be on the mail server, only the mail1 server.

[lubred]

I do have same problem intermitently too and I am using IE6. Usually on second trial it goes in.

[jmbeach]

Thought I'd let admin know what error message I'm getting with Netscape Communicator 7:

"The PASS command did not succeed. Mail server mail1.mydomain.com responded: busy try again later!"

Then I'm prompted to re-enter my password, in which case I cannot, as it's never accepted, so I cancel, click 'get messages', and voila, I'm back in.

It's already happened twice this morning, so it looks like it'll be a busy day.

Any idea what it could be besides heavy load, as you say it's not experiencing?

[somereseller]

I wonder if it's an imap problem. It seems the server needs to do some processing when it receives emails and that locks that account for a while (minutes).

[DVHost]

I am receiveing the password prompts as well on Outlook 2002. I have been keeping a close eye on this problem and tracking it for the past two weeks. Here is what I have found:

The password prompts begin around 8:45 AM and stop after 5:00 PM EST. This happens from Monday - Friday. It does not happen on nights and weekends.

The prompts are usually worse in the morning and taper off as the afternoon progresses and eventually ending around 5:30~6:00.

I have e-mail accounts residing on three different networks. The only accounts prompting for passwords are Matrix/Vortech accounts on Mail1.

Checking mail is like driving a stickshift.

[vonbrocklin]

Originally posted by DVHost
The prompts are usually worse in the morning and taper off as the afternoon progresses and eventually ending around 5:30~6:00

Agreed, and this morning it is worse than ever. My mail has been open for just about three hours and out of my 12 automatic mail checks in that time I have gotten the error 8 times. Arrggh! It is especially annoying in Mozilla because it brings up three seperate prompts.

[somereseller]

DVHost->Thanks Private Eye

[xweb]

vonbrocklin, yes, this morning is a PITA. I really hope Vortech can figure this out.

Yes, all the email accounts of our sites pop up or get a connection failure due to a file busy problem.
I really hope this can be fixed soon.

JM Proulx
DeJump inc./rivesudweb.com

[Wonderer]

Originally posted by admin
We know there is an issue with outlook 2002 but from this post it seems its doing it on every thing.. Can some one post what mail client there using.. Also our mail servers have ZERO load really but it may be something else we need to find or fix..

But I already had plans to add anther mail server in.

I have been experiencing this same problem for 3 weeks now. At first it was once every few days, now it happens multipe times of day.

Outlook 98
Outlook 2000
Outlook Express 5
Outlook Express 6

All of these clients have had this problem

[xweb]

I believe only my mail1 accounts are currently having problems. Anyone confirm this?