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Originally Posted by meiphones_brill
Trust me - pop3 won't allow more than one concurrent connection without problems. It depends on the pop3 server, but what happens is the server will have a stale pop3 lock file that has to be flushed. Most pop3 servers set up a cron that runs every so often to clear these lock files out.
If you stop collecting mail on that account from ALL your computers for something between 25 minutes and 4 hours (depending on the isp's setting) then the cronjob will remove that lock file and you'll be running again.
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Only once have I seen the error that said that another POP3 process had locked things. Much more often what I see is what I described earlier - my PC keeps popping up this "Network password" request, and there are no errors to examine. The strange thing is that if I go to email accounts on this PC and press the "test settings" button it logs on to the server and everything is fine again - until the next time this box pops up.