As old users of the spampal.org and spampalforums.org websites will be aware, the webhosting for these sites expired 18th May. Unfortunately I don't own the domains anymore so I'm not able to set up redirection for them to point to Sourceforge.
Whois records to claim that I'm the owner of spampal.org and spampalforums.org (which is strange to me as I understood they'd been transferred to...
I can only imagine some network interface or firewall might not be operating correctly when SpamPal starts as a service initially during boot-up, and thus it can't connect accept connections. But when you later restart SpamPal, the whatever-it-is is now working and SpamPal can successfully accept connections.
SpamPal is only doing very basic network calls to accept connections, and it's hard...
