http://www.ritlabs.com New posts in Connection to host broken (last commands sent were: "RETR 9995", "RETR 9996") of forum at www.ritlabs.com [www.ritlabs.com] en http://backend.userland.com/rss2 Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:26:04 +0300 Connection to host broken (last commands sent were: "RETR 9995", "RETR 9996") in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Before I get that message I get a few minutes of:

Status:  Deleting message #nnnn

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The deleting message numbers are getting higher, around 5,000, then start lower.
Although the total numbers do not really go down.

Maybe it is choking on trying to delete already downloaded messages.
Maybe I will hand delete old messages that are in the AOL mailbox.

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PROBABLY BEST SOLUTION:

Leave AOL servers
https://lifehacker.com/can-you-switch-isps-without-losing-your-email-address-1836075089
23 July 2020 16:26:04, Steven Avery.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic14867/message50175/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic14867/message50175/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:26:04 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Connection to host broken (last commands sent were: "RETR 9995", "RETR 9996") in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Hi,

I am running TheBat! 7.4.2 on Windows 10 on a Verizon.net account that is now hosted at AOL.
It had been working seamlessly for a good while.
Two other Verizon-AOL accounts, smaller, seem to be ok, maybe.
Any idea what would be:
Connection to host broken (last commands sent were: "RETR 9995", "RETR 9996")

CONNECTION CENTER
receiving mail messages
Connecting to POP3 server pop.aol.com on port 995
Initiating TLS handshake
Certificate  S/N: 03000AD37B367050C22EC51A5FA246B0, algorithm: RSA (2048 bits),  issued from 5/12/2020 to 11/8/2020 12:00:00 PM, for 8 host(s):  pop.aol.com, pop.aim.com, pop.mcom.com, pop.goowy.com, pop.tunome.com,  pop.angeliamail.com, pop.csi.com, east.us.pop.aol.com.
Owner: "US", "California", "Sunnyvale", "Oath Inc", "pop.aol.com".
Issuer:  "US", "DigiCert Inc", "www.digicert.com";, "DigiCert SHA2 High Assurance  Server CA". Valid from 10/22/2013 12:00:00 PM to 10/22/2028 12:00:00  PM.
Root: "US", "DigiCert Inc", "www.digicert.com";, "DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA". Valid from 11/10/2006 to 11/10/2031.
TLS handshake complete
connected to POP3 server
authenticated (plain)
20528 messages in the mailbox, 10534 new
Connection to host broken (last commands sent were: "RETR 9995", "RETR 9996")

Since my puter that does the email has 300k mail from that box, I am thinking of simply starting with an empty new install on my newer puter.  I do tend to do that every few years anyway.  On Eudora I keep both icons, the current and the archive files, active, just pointing to a different target data folder.  I may try to do something like that with TheBat!. Make sense? (I would probably upgrade to 9.2 also.)

Your help and thoughts and ideas appreciated!

Thanks!

Steven

22 July 2020 20:16:25, Steven Avery.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic14867/message50171/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic14867/message50171/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 20:16:25 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client