Helder Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 2/13/03 12:45 PM: >chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>You have verified that the TCP/IP connection tool you are using works? >>Maybe it has developed a problem. (I'm not entirely sure what I am >>talking about here, I just thumbed thru the help file for setting up a >>CompuServe connection over TCP/IP and it says you need a compatible >>connection tool... it looks like I do not have such as I only have >>"Serial Port" and "Apple Modem Tool" as options, neither look like they >>will work with TCP/IP). > >Fred, do you have a local access number for CompuServe? If you >configure Emailer to dial CompuServe directly, do you still get an >error when you download your email? If not, this may indicate that the >problem is with your TCP/IP connection to CompuServe, not Emailer itself.
Well...Dave, Chris, Helder, et al-- That sound you heard a little while ago was me determined to get my nephew off email at his university in Arkansas--or at least to ban him from forwarding messages... After trying the local access number (same result), checking all my scripts and log-on information, changing between three TCP/telnet conduits (TCPack--do they still exist?, Black Night demo, and TGE TCP), I tried using Emailer to get messages off my AOL account (kept for my wife and son's addresses at present). It handily and quickly downloaded all the spam, sales pitches and porn solicitation that comes to that account(and why I never use it or look at it). That got me thinking. I called CompuServe tech support, and they said there had been no changes or adjustments to the service within the last few days. The tech suggested that it sounded like a problem with one of the messages. Hmm...I had thought of that first, and had trashed the first message in my in-box via the CIS software early on. But... I just realized that msg and the next were both forwards from my nephew who is a college freshman. When I went in via CIS and deleted the next two messages (for good measure)--EUREKA!!! I am irritated and embarrassed--thank you for all your help (now I have the ability to do another clean install should I need to), and hopefully my experience will help others save time when they face it. This has been the place to come--I am a minority of a minority within a minority--using Claris Emailer to access a CompuServe classic account via DSL on Mac OS 9!! Be assured that Jonathan will get a loving but firm lecture from his favorite uncle about forwarding spam ;->!! Thanks again--it's back to being a digest subscriber for now. Blessings, Fred ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
