Locked Out ????

[Manfred]

Hi, I got a mesege from yahoo saying Ive been locked out of the group !!!

WTF ? Has pgo gotten me kicked off yahoo?
Thats going on?

manfred

[Wilson Logan]

Hi Manfred,

I'm including this info now in my introductory email when customers buy PGO:

The Yahoo download limit is about 200 to 300 messages. By downloading 30 messages at a time, you can download 6,000 to 9,000 messages without being locked out by Yahoo. On occasions I have downloaded over 20,000 without problems but if you want a safe default, go with 4000 - 5000 at a time.

If you're doing an overnight/unattended download which you know to be greater than 9000 messages I suggest you set your Workflow options (File--> Options --> Workflow tab) as attached. The reasons for this are:

1) If you do get locked out simply by the sheer number of messages downloaded, setting the "on resume" option to 120 mins will retry to start your download once every 2 hours.

2) When you're doing a refresh or initial download of multiple groups & you get a group you can't read e.g because Yahoo has changed the group format or many messages are deleted, PGO tries to get the first of 30 messages. It then assumes that the message has been deleted & then tries to get the next message *in sequence* not the next 30th message. This happens until the end of the group is reached or you get locked out (after about 200 of these errors). If you set the Workflow option so that you stop after receiving 10 invalid messages you can at least avoid being locked out. In future you can set that Group to be skipped during Refreshes. 


HTH,

Wilson.