What does pop lock busy mean?
Most commonly, you may receive this error if you experience an interruption in your connection while you are checking your e-mail, for instance if your dial-up connection is terminated abnormally. It can also happen if you cancel receiving your mail and retry again too quickly or if someone has sent you a message that is too large for your computer to download. When you begin to retrieve your mail from your mailbox on the server, the server locks the mailbox so that no one else may try to retrieve your mail during the POP operation. It then sends you the mail, one message at a time. If you receive all the e-mail that was in your mailbox on the server, then the server deletes the copy of the messages it has and unlocks your mailbox. If you interrupt this process by cancelling the receive operation, the messages remain on the server, and the maibox will remain locked for 20 minutes. Each time you try to retrieve the mail while the mailbox is locked will reset the 20 minute timer, because
