FWIW I had similar problems with Earthlink this week and have filed a formal complaint with them. My situation is this: my ISP is Charter Communications (cable), and I have (business) web hosting through Earthlink. I suddenly became unable to send e-mail through my business address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) but could receive e-mail. Sending/receiving e-mail from my (free) charter.net addresses worked fine, and internet access was not a problem. I called Earthlink who insisted that Charter had changed SMTP (outgoing mail) settings and that I must contact Charter for the new settings. I adamantly protested that this made no sense, but decided to pacify Earthlink by contacting Charter. As I expected, Charter had changed no configurations. While on hold, I logged into my Earthlink Control Center and looked at my Mailbox Settings. (I had not looked at these settings since the time I initially set up the mailbox over three years ago. The instructions at that time said: SMTP server is smtp.earthlink.net.) When I inspected the Mailbox Settings a couple of days ago, I discovered that the instructions were changed (even though I was _never_ notified by Earthlink that this was going to change): SMTP server is your ISP's server. That was all I needed to know. In my Entourage Account settings, I changed SMTP settings from smtp.earthlink.net to smtp.charter.net, and all is well again. Both my ISP (Charter) and web hosting provider (Earthlink) are now aware of this "issue" and will hopefully relay this information to customers with similar problems. BTW If your using OS 9.x and your ISP is Earthlink, it looks like your Sending Mail (SMTP Server) should be smtpauth.earthlink.net and your Receiving Mail (pop server) should be pop.earthlink.net. See: http://kb.earthlink.net/case.asp?s=st%3D716%2Ce%3D0000000000533130269%2Ck%3D 6276%2Csxi%3D6&article=resid2268 Sorry to be long-winded, but maybe something here will help in some way. Gene
On 9/17/05 12:33 AM, "Louise Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For weeks now, nearly every day, at no particular time of the day, I¹m > unable to send or receive email. I can still connect to the Internet, > however. And after a short while maybe 15-30 minutes the email if fine > again. I have called Earthlink on several occasions to find out what is > causing this. They offer suggestions to re-set certain things, but it¹s > never a permanent solution. > > Tonight during one of the timeouts, I emailed Earthlink to inquire. This is > my reply from them: > > We understand that you are having problems sending and receiving email. > > Because you are able to browse, it appears that there is no relation between > your problem and the earthlink service. You will have to inquire with the > provider of your email program what the cause of the problem is. > > If you still have problems, please describe them. > +++++++++++++++++++ > > So my question is, isn¹t Earthlink my email provider? Are they talking about > my contacting Microsoft about Entourage? I¹m very confused, and BTW, am not > the least bit technical, so if this question is dumb, sorry. > > Louise -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
