Cannot Seem to Make the System Work

[David Woolley]

On 13/08/17 04:48, Aemudi17 wrote:
> New at this.  Thought had done everything correctly .. maybe not!!
>
> As I am typing out the message I want to send - up pops  :  'Lost
> connection with server: Bad file descriptor'.  What does this mean and
> how do I fix it so this ceases to happen?
>

Which server was this.  In particular which protocol (although knowing 
the server may answer that question).

"Bad file descriptor" is worrying, as it is more consistent with their 
never having been a connection than one being lost.