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  prod mailserver? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-18 19:52 +0100
    Re: prod mailserver? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-09-18 20:22 +0100
      Re: prod mailserver? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-18 20:44 +0100
      Re: prod mailserver? Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2026-09-19 12:11 +0200
        Re: prod mailserver? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-19 20:15 +0100
        Re: prod mailserver? NFN Smith <worldoff9908@gmail.com> - 2026-09-22 13:40 -0700
          Re: prod mailserver? "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-09-23 01:35 +0100
          Re: prod mailserver? Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2026-09-23 08:33 -0700

#22056 — prod mailserver?

(Sorry, I've looked in Tools, and even tried F1.)

Is there a way to prod the mailserver (I use POP) without closing and
opening TB? For example, when "we've sent you a one-time passcode" (or
similar), and I don't want to wait for my next automated prod.

(Although that sort of email often definitely doesn't arrive. I /assume/
that's because of my rather unusual mail setup, but can't see /why/ that
should stop that particular type of email getting through, when the one
telling me about the message - and giving me the link to it - did.)
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"... four Oscars, and two further nominations ... On these criteria,
he's Britain's most successful film director." Powell or Pressburger?
no; Richard Attenborough? no; Nick Park!

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#22057

"J. P. Gilliver" wrote:

> Is there a way to prod the mailserver (I use POP) without closing and
> opening TB? For example, when "we've sent you a one-time passcode" (or
> similar), and I don't want to wait for my next automated prod.

File > Get New Messages For > [account]

or shortcut F5 to get for current account, or shift-F5 to get for all 
accounts

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#22059

On 2026/9/18 20:22:35, Andy Burns wrote:
> "J. P. Gilliver" wrote:
> 
>> Is there a way to prod the mailserver (I use POP) without closing and
>> opening TB? For example, when "we've sent you a one-time passcode" (or
>> similar), and I don't want to wait for my next automated prod.
> 
> File > Get New Messages For > [account]
> 
> or shortcut F5 to get for current account, or shift-F5 to get for all 
> accounts

Thanks - excellent!
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.
- Penny Mayes, UMRA, 2014-August

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#22063

Andy Burns wrote:
> "J. P. Gilliver" wrote:
> 
>> Is there a way to prod the mailserver (I use POP) without closing and
>> opening TB? For example, when "we've sent you a one-time passcode" (or
>> similar), and I don't want to wait for my next automated prod.
> 
> File > Get New Messages For > [account]
> 
> or shortcut F5 to get for current account, or shift-F5 to get for all 
> accounts

Or right click on the account in the folder pane: "Get messages".

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#22064

On 2026/9/19 11:11:26, Frank Miller wrote:
> Andy Burns wrote:
>> "J. P. Gilliver" wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to prod the mailserver (I use POP) without closing and
>>> opening TB? For example, when "we've sent you a one-time passcode" (or
>>> similar), and I don't want to wait for my next automated prod.
>>
>> File > Get New Messages For > [account]
>>
>> or shortcut F5 to get for current account, or shift-F5 to get for all 
>> accounts
> 
> Or right click on the account in the folder pane: "Get messages".

Thanks!
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

In pop everything comes back; often it comes back before it's even gone
away. - David Hepworth, RT 2026/1/14-20

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#22066

Frank Miller wrote:
> Andy Burns wrote:
>> "J. P. Gilliver" wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to prod the mailserver (I use POP) without closing and
>>> opening TB? For example, when "we've sent you a one-time passcode" (or
>>> similar), and I don't want to wait for my next automated prod.
>>
>> File > Get New Messages For > [account]
>>
>> or shortcut F5 to get for current account, or shift-F5 to get for all
>> accounts
> 
> Or right click on the account in the folder pane: "Get messages".
> 

Also, Get Messages icon in the Task Bar at the top of the screen.  If 
you have multiple accounts, then that will download messages for all 
your accounts (including updating displays on News accounts). Right 
click allows you to specify downloading mail on a specified account. If 
the button is not there, Right click on the blank space at the left side 
of the Task Bar, and then use the dialog to drag-and-drop Get Messages 
(or other useful buttons) into the Task Bar.

Additionally, there should be a cloud icon at the top of the Folders 
Pane, and that behaves the same way as the Get Messages button does.

Smith

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#22069

On 2026/9/22 21:40:56, NFN Smith wrote:
> Frank Miller wrote:
>> Andy Burns wrote:
>>> "J. P. Gilliver" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there a way to prod the mailserver (I use POP) without closing and
>>>> opening TB? For example, when "we've sent you a one-time passcode" (or
>>>> similar), and I don't want to wait for my next automated prod.
>>>
>>> File > Get New Messages For > [account]
>>>
>>> or shortcut F5 to get for current account, or shift-F5 to get for all
>>> accounts
>>
>> Or right click on the account in the folder pane: "Get messages".
>>
> 
> Also, Get Messages icon in the Task Bar at the top of the screen.  If 

Ah, even better; I think I knew about it at one time, but had forgotten
what it meant - a case of for once an icon _not_ being immediately
recognisable. Left-clicking it only gets for what you're currently on -
news if a newsgroup - but I'd probably be on the Inbox if I was waiting
for an email anyway.

> you have multiple accounts, then that will download messages for all 
> your accounts (including updating displays on News accounts). Right 
> click allows you to specify downloading mail on a specified account. If 

Yes, like the Get Mew Messages for under File.

> the button is not there, Right click on the blank space at the left side 
> of the Task Bar, and then use the dialog to drag-and-drop Get Messages 
> (or other useful buttons) into the Task Bar.
> 
> Additionally, there should be a cloud icon at the top of the Folders 
> Pane, and that behaves the same way as the Get Messages button does.

Ah, that's what I've been clicking on; I don't have a Get Messages button.>
> Smith

John
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"The wish of the lazy to allow unsupervised access [to the internet] to
their children should not reduce all adults browsing to the level of
suitability for a five-year-old."
Yaman Akdeniz, quoted in Inter//face (The Times, 1999-2-10): p12

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#22079

On Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:40:56 -0700, NFN Smith <worldoff9908@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Frank Miller wrote:
>> Andy Burns wrote:
>>> "J. P. Gilliver" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there a way to prod the mailserver (I use POP) without closing and
>>>> opening TB? 
>>>
>>> File > Get New Messages For > [account]
>>>
>>> or shortcut F5 to get for current account, or shift-F5 to get for all
>>> accounts

>Also, Get Messages icon in the Task Bar at the top of the screen. 
>Additionally, there should be a cloud icon at the top of the Folders 
>Pane, and that behaves the same way as the Get Messages button does.

That's 'a single item', icon and description, innit?

Unless a user has gone to the trouble to choose not to display icons
via about:config, any of the toolbar options from 'Customise' willl be
paired.

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