I have around 6 [7? maybe] accounts that I use -- some daily, others
only when I travel or when a main account is unavailable. All can be
accessed online, several are also POP3. All POP3 accounts can also be
accessed online from my Yahoo and eKit accounts. I like my foreign Yahoo
accounts; I have a choice of dozens of SMTP servers to use for outgoing
mail, although the POP servers are specific to the accounts. I would
NEVER get a POP3 account that doesn't have a choice of webmail for times
when I want my email and I'm at someone else's computer.
Thunderbird [& Mozilla] has the option to access many POP email
accounts, and sort them in folders. I get mail from 3 accounts and a
remailer in Thunderbird. I use junk mail filters and my own filters to
automatically sort, flag and color-code my emails as they arrive. I have
the choice to have all mail sorted to one account, or to leave the
messages online, downloading copies, so I can use a shared account. I
also use the same preferences for mail in both Thunderbird and Mozilla,
so I can send, receive, view and save the same messages simultaneously.
Have you backed up your email in Entourage? Do you know where the
Preferences are? Back up your email and throw away the preferences,
except the messages and address book--probably located in your home
folder ///[home]/Library/. Does Entourage store preferences and email
as plain text or is it a file that's unreadable except in Entourage, as
with IE? Thunderbird, Mozilla, Eudora, Opera all store the messages and
preferences as text. I think Mac Mail uses XML. If your mail is so
important to you, wouldn't your rather use an email client that can be
read in a text program than only in a proprietary format?
Perhaps the settings in your modem need to be reset? Back up the
preferences first, and make notes of the settings before you reset the
modem. Before you do that, contact Verizon 800-567-6789 and tell the
robot that you can't get/send mail and to connect you to the Mac tech.
They're pretty good if you ask the right questions. Be prepared to
reboot the computer and modem. Then insist that it's their settings for
your account.
Betty
I hope I didn't say I can send, but not receive email. If so I apologize.
I can do neither. On some networks. On others I can do both. So, all or
nothing.
Is it possible for there to be something in the network configuration that
will not allow connection to e-mail servers? Seems it must be so, since I
can use e-mail with some, but not others. What is it, though? Are some
intentionally set up this way?
As to Web e-mail: I'm reluctant. I like the way Entourage allows me to
organize my e-mail into different projects, like having it on my computer,
etc.
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