I talked to Cox live chat yesterday about this, they said to reinstall Thunderbird after only confirming that I could log in to webmail and giving me a link to the settings page (http://www.cox.com/residential/support/internet/article.cox?articleId=a8fb24c0-6440-11df-ccef-000000000000).
I'd used pop.west.cox.net within Cox's network without any problems before yesterday, and pop.west vs pop.cox seems to make no difference. Still using port 995, SSL/TLS normal password (TLS certificate also no difference). I haven't made any config changes in TB for many weeks before the error started.
I updated TB from 24.x.x to 31.2.0 just now after forgetting to catch up on delayed updates (OSX, 24mb of update when the full 31.2.0 binary is 51mb per https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/download/?product=thunderbird-31.2.0&os=osx&lang=en-US). Yet the problem still persists, and it is still random. Are 5-minutes-or-less-between POP3 queries being flood controlled on Cox?
ETA: I'm checking 2 Cox POP3 accounts every 5 mins and my tablet only checks manually (so I can login to VPN over WiFi first).
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