Re: [gotmail] flakiness

[paul cannon]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:01:11PM -0700, Tom Duffy wrote:
> I knew you were going to say the proxy :-)  I don't think it is the
> proxy because it works sometimes and not others...with the same proxy
> set in .gotmailrc.  If I go to one machine and try it, it will fail and
> then I go another, it will work fine.  Unfortunately, I cannot really
> test without proxy.

I don't want to suspect it either, but it is a viable possibility.
Proxies do have an effect on the data going through. I admit, though,
that it's a long shot.

Since you say that the failure is intermittent for you, I think that
maybe Hotmail is doing the slow-migration thing again. In the past,
they've made changes to some of their servers and not to others,
probably as a sort of testing procedure. Gotmail would fail when
connected to the changed ones, and work fine with the older ones. I
didn't think that was the case before because none of the reports I got
mentioned intermittency.

It's still not a great theory, because I ought to be getting the error
with the same frequency as you, but I'm not getting it at all.  But it's
a start.

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