I didn't think I had anything to say about this because I haven't experienced this error, but then I found a reference to this error message in my saved mail, in an old thread on this mailing list (from January 28, 2016).
So I went to the mailing list info url in each list message: http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info and went to the list archives. But the list archives there only goes back about three years. But I did find a list archive at marc.info: https://marc.info/?l=alpine-info&r=1&w=2 And then from January 2016: https://marc.info/?l=alpine-info&r=1&b=201601&w=2 And then the thread in question ([Alpine-info] Best timeout settings for connecting to Exchange server?): https://marc.info/?t=145399947700006&r=1&w=2 You might take a look at that to see if there's anything helpful there. Also, people's suggestion to back out of the folder (using "<") and re-enter it (rather than quitting Alpine) seems worth a try. BTW, what do you mean by "log in to Alpine"? (Because one doesn't really have to log in to alpine. Probably you're having alpine connect to some mail server -- which may be relevant to getting that error message; but it does seem that others replying to your message have figured that out.) Milt Epstein mepst...@illinois.edu On Sun, 2 Feb 2025, Thomas Gramstad via Alpine-info wrote: > The Subject: line is an error message that I get very often > in Alpine, like several times per hour: > > [MAIL FOLDER "INBOX" CLOSED DUE TO ACCESS ERROR] > > When this happens, in the folder I am in I can still see the > numbered list of messages, but if I try to open a message to read > it, there is nothing to read. I then have to quit Alpine, start > Alpine a new, and log in to Alpine, and then I can read the > messages. > > This frequent need to quit and restart is annoying. Is there > something I can do to prevent, or at least reduce the number of > such incidents? Like checking something more often, or less > often, or switch something off? > > Thomas Gramstad > _______________________________________________ > Alpine-info mailing list > Alpine-info@u.washington.edu > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info__;!!DZ3fjg!6Wjel1CAJEdPWB9pFlfWG1dMiSfiJ70n2wME-SxsxsrM_yvDp8HOFQEpNkJ9DuV2GFcMP7yAahkNSOuXydQJE5tIQQhdAB0i$ > > _______________________________________________ Alpine-info mailing list Alpine-info@u.washington.edu http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info
