[EMAIL PROTECTED] tapped out this message on 10/1/2002 6:14 PM >But your error isn't in reaching the server, it is in logging into the >server. What is the username setup they have told you to use.
They told me to use mail.attbi.com for both mail and smtp. It always worked before the takeover without a glitch. >Are you >sure what you have is correct. Positive. > Are you sure about the password. Yes, otherwise, I could not get mail the other 90% of the time could I? >I'm >showing 4 different servers that respond to mail.attbi.com. Have you >tried hitting them via the IP address rather than DNS? Tell me how to do this and I'll try........I am too sick with the flu to think right now....... > Maybe one of the 4 >is broken. The following is the result of an A record lookup: > >mail.attbi.com 216.148.227.71 >mail.attbi.com 204.127.202.7 >mail.attbi.com 63.240.76.7 >mail.attbi.com 204.127.198.7 > >I can't telnet to any of the above, so it looks like they have IP >blocking on. Maybe something is screwed up in their IP filters and is >partially blocking you from connecting. You won't know until you can get >past the "We only support OE", and the only way to do that is... try OE. OE 5.02 screws up my computer but I have it open and working for just that address. >>This is a case of their server hiccoughing but them not wanting to admit >>it. > >Possibly... but for sake of argument, you need to try OE to see what >happens. Does it issue the same errors or can it connect? It seems odd >that the server would STILL be down this whole time for you. If in fact >it was this unreliable, other users would be complaining as well. It's intermittent. It will say try again....and then give errors for a while and then not........weird. For example I have no errors right now. >Its very possible that something is in fact screwed up with the Emailer >settings (you could have a stray, non printable character in there. >Visually it will look ok, but to the server it will be a totally >different logon). Yup I've retyped all that in once again. Does it with all the attbi.com names. >Sometimes you have to take a step back, know that what you are doing is >right... but second guess yourself anyway. Heck, I just spent the last >two days trying to get a CD ROM drive to work on a PC correctly. >Everything that was going wrong was screaming to me that I had a >Master/Slave conflict between the CD and the HDD. > >I knew I had the jumpers right... I can jumper these things in my >sleep... I couldn't possibly have made a mistake. But, I double checked >them anyway. And they WERE right... but... since I was willing to 2nd >guess what I knew to be true, I examined the jumpers again... and found >that the one on the CD had a bent connector as was making poor contact. >As a result, the CD was randomly switching from Slave to Single mode as >the jumper made and lost contact. > >I would STILL be fighting it if I hadn't been willing to admit that, as >right as I knew I was, I am fallible, and could have made an error. And >beyond that, other influences can get in the way and cause an error that >I just didn't notice on the first 10 passes. > > >So what it really boils down to is... you are correct, you have your >settings right... but when everyone at Tech Support tells you to try it >with OE... humor them, and give it a whirl. At least that way when it >fails, they can't brush you off by telling you Emailer isn't supported. >And in the process you might get lucky... you might notice something that >you missed the first time around. I understand. And I think I did that, because I am well aware of looking in the mirror so to speak before I scream at others...................but, I'll look again. I hadn't changed a thing...but will retype it all in once more. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
