bad dispatcher

Tue, 10 May 2005 09:37:46 +0300

bad dispatcher >Connection to host broken (last commands sent were: "TOP ##"< in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
1. Check the Attach directory of that very account. Under Account/Properties/Files & directories. It may cause the problem.

2. In the registry the 'working directory' has to be the curent one, but it seems it has not been updated. If necessary, change it under \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RIT\The Bat!\Workig Directory
10 May 2005 09:37:46, Alexander Petrari.

bad dispatcher

Wed, 04 May 2005 15:03:31 +0300

bad dispatcher >Connection to host broken (last commands sent were: "TOP ##"< in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Apart from other things I love The Bat! for its nice dispatcher (yeah, Pegasus has it too, and Foxmail as well, however they suck in different areas much more ;)

But, here the problem starts:

1. I ran out of space on my system partition where I had my Bat installed, so I just moved the whole program directory to another partition and changed the accounts' paths (I have 2 pop3's, however - just one required changing the path, another one has already changed itself to a correct one ;)

2. Now for the weird things: the "self adjusting" account works perfectly okay, another one (the one that required changing its path - dunno if it has anything in common, I've just noticed the coincidence) allows to send the mail, but refuses to dispatch new mail from the server. The account log says >Connection to host broken (last commands sent were: {"UIDL"} "TOP ##")< where ## stands for number of a message it crashed on.

I came across the post about similar behaviour of a dispatcher and it pointed to ACCOUNT.M_R and ACCOUNT.M_D files. Both are empty, 0b length. I also noted - maybe it's common procedure, dunno - that during the dispatch attempt the Bat generates bunch of 0 length .tmp files in the TEMP folder - number equal to the number of all mails on the account.

3. I deleted the account, set it up again from scratch and tried dispatching - same story.

4. I've just tried downloading all my mail again, without dispatching. It started ok, but then stopped again at the msg. no. 187 - apparently this is some big message w/ attachment - and returned the same error as previously.

I should also note, that for some time I've noticed very lengthy dispatching of mails that had big attachments - long before all this what I wrote here about happened.

Disabling AV plugin didn't help either (as some suggested)

Any ideas? :/
04 May 2005 15:03:31, matt ta.

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