Error from multiple yahoo a/cs?

[antica]

Hi

I got this error,

Task '<a/c> - Sending and Receiving' reported error (0x800CCC0F) : 'The connection to the server was interrupted. If this problem continues, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).' in my Outlook XP when I try to download my yahoo emails, where <a/c> is my yahoo id.

And when I try to login to yahoo via IE or any web browser, I got "999 This page is currently unavailable" webpage and the error message "Unfortunately, we are unable to process your request at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please try again later."

After digging around yahoo help, it was stated that it could be I have multiple yahoo a/cs and was trying to log in different a/cs at the same time.

I do have multiple yahoo a/cs setup in yahoopops. But I always check each a/c individually and after the prev. a/c has completed (i.e. the pop-up windows from yahoopops and Outlook have all completed and closed by themselves).

The DETAILED yahoopops log just shows this,

[08/27/04 21:25:00] <a/c> Connecting to Yahoo...
[08/27/04 21:25:05] <a/c> Login failed. No redirection to *.mail.yahoo.com.
[08/27/04 21:25:05] <a/c> Login to Yahoo Mail failed (Unknown error).

Are there any work arounds for this or any way to avoid getting this error? This problem goes away after X mins (which the value X I've yet to determine) but it takes quite a long time before I can log in again, in either yahoopops or via the web browser.

Thanks

[wisconsingod]

Change the timeout settings to maximum. The default is 1 minute and it takes longer than that to force a logout-login. Doing so you can do all your send-recieves in one group, but it takes about 5 minutes to check your mail.

[antica]

Sorry to tell you this but I've already changed the settings even in the registry to be the max. (some big value which I can't remember).

This problem seems random and it happens not only for yahoopops but also for pop peeper when I tried it (downloading only headers and not even the bodies).

After a few a/cs, pop peeper also complained unknown error and when I tried to log in yahoo via web browser, it returned a 999 error.

Strange thing is, if I log on to my company's VPN and set yahoo pop proxies setting to use my company's web proxy, it was able to connect (so can the web browser, using my company's web proxy)!!

Any one has any idea? Problem/restriction set on my ISP side? But I'm going via my local ISP to get into my company's VPN?!!?

[chemasi]

I got a similar problem when I had over 500 messages in my inbox at yahoo. What I did was begin deleting message and bringing my total messages somewhere under 500. I also set yahoopops to download maximum of 100 messages. I set the timeout to max of 10 minutes.

It took a few repeats to finally get all my messages, and then I have been ok ever since. I think that yahoo might have some kind of alert that will shut down an account if there are too many requests to view emails in a short period of time. And that is what you are doing when you have Yahoopops going in and looking at all your emails in your yahoo account. It might be some kind of safe guard set up by yahoo to circumvent "denial of service" attacks.

It appears that the programers of Yahoopops have set it up to go through all the emails in your inbox even when you set it to limit to a certian number less than that. I repeately got a similar experience as you described until I took that action that I spoke of above.

Hi

I got this error,

Task '<a/c> - Sending and Receiving' reported error (0x800CCC0F) : 'The connection to the server was interrupted. If this problem continues, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).' in my Outlook XP when I try to download my yahoo emails, where <a/c> is my yahoo id.

And when I try to login to yahoo via IE or any web browser, I got "999 This page is currently unavailable" webpage and the error message "Unfortunately, we are unable to process your request at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please try again later."

After digging around yahoo help, it was stated that it could be I have multiple yahoo a/cs and was trying to log in different a/cs at the same time.

I do have multiple yahoo a/cs setup in yahoopops. But I always check each a/c individually and after the prev. a/c has completed (i.e. the pop-up windows from yahoopops and Outlook have all completed and closed by themselves).

The DETAILED yahoopops log just shows this,

[08/27/04 21:25:00] <a/c> Connecting to Yahoo...
[08/27/04 21:25:05] <a/c> Login failed. No redirection to *.mail.yahoo.com.
[08/27/04 21:25:05] <a/c> Login to Yahoo Mail failed (Unknown error).

Are there any work arounds for this or any way to avoid getting this error? This problem goes away after X mins (which the value X I've yet to determine) but it takes quite a long time before I can log in again, in either yahoopops or via the web browser.

Thanks