For what it's worth, I've been a Compuserve user since before the internet, and indeed still am. [I started on a Tandy Model 100 notebook at 300bps...] I still access Compuserve everyday using Entourage via broadband, but not via their network.
If your neighbor wants to use broadband and retain her Compuserve account, it works fine. I realize that may not be the issue exactly, but it is an option. There certainly aren't many folks still using Classic Compuserve, and even fewer Mac users, but the service is still going, and very dependable. There are still Classic user forums available at; http://community.compuserve.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?webtag=ws-cssoftware There are a few Mac users there, and all are very helpful. Blessings, Fred On 11/30/08 2:48 PM, "Stephen Duxbury - Prestset" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi William > > I have also read quite a lot or web pages and had quite a few phone calls to > CompuServe!! It was authentication to CompuServe on the dial up, I had made > the email work fine on my computer next door on my TalkTalk connection!! > > In the end I have come to the conclusion that the dial-up is not going to > work on 10.3.9 (it needs a script to make it work) we were on classic > CompuServe and not 2000 so didn't have the programme working directly on > CompuServe. I have gone down the route of a free dial up for now which > worked first time, and then had to set the SMTP for that dial up on the > sending of email and it worked straight away!! I had spent too long long > already trying to make the dial up work. My long term plan is to put my > neighbour onto broadband and also change her off CompuServe!! > > Regards > Stephen > > > > On 30/11/08 14:57, "William Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Friday 11/28/08 6:05 PM, "Stephen Duxbury - Prestset" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Ok so to my questions as I am now getting rusty with these old settings!! >>> >>> It dials, does the hand shake but fails on authentication?? >>> >>> On the old system it used a 'script' to connect the emails - the tech guy I >>> spoke to talked about using a script, but of course he had no Mac knowledge. >>> On the PPP options I can see 'script' but its greyed out and cant seem to >>> make it available? >> >> Hi Stephen! >> >> What is telling you that authentication is failing? The connection to the >> ISP or Entourage? >> >> Are you using Entourage to trigger the connection or are you connecting >> first and then using Entourage to send/receive? >> >> Entourage itself doesn't use any scripts but your computer does use a >> connection script to prepare the modem for dialing. The script simply tells >> the modem to prepare itself for a certain speed and then to dial a specific >> telephone number. >> >> The connection process can be triggered by Entourage because it is a network >> application and when your computer senses it making a network query then it >> will initiate a connection. > -- 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/>
