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No warning when a server is down?

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I am testing a private POP3 mail server, so I set up an account in Thunderbird for it. I set it to check for email every minute.

I have since shut the server down, but Thunderbird is giving me no warning that it is unable to fetch new messages for the account, which I find surprising.

What is the expected behaviour?

I am testing a private POP3 mail server, so I set up an account in Thunderbird for it. I set it to check for email every minute. I have since shut the server down, but Thunderbird is giving me no warning that it is unable to fetch new messages for the account, which I find surprising. What is the expected behaviour?

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I am surprised it even worked checking mail every minute. Generally the connect auth and disconnect should take longer than that.

What authentication were you using?

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Matt said

What authentication were you using?

"Normal password" over SSL/TLS, port 995.

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There should at least have been a timeout, but you never allowed a connection attempt to get that many seconds into it before you kicked of another one. IIRC time out is 300 seconds

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Matt said

There should at least have been a timeout, but you never allowed a connection attempt to get that many seconds into it before you kicked of another one. IIRC time out is 300 seconds

I have set the message check frequency to every 10 minutes, but I am still getting no alert that the POP3 server is dead.

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is there a redirect/fall over IP in DNS that Thunderbird might be using

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Matt said

is there a redirect/fall over IP in DNS that Thunderbird might be using

No. The POP3 hostname it's pointing to has an IPv4 and IPv6 address, both are currently dead.

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