Hi, What's probably happening is that the ports that are used for eMail are closed at the router. Some public wireless access points only have Ports 80 and 8080 open for HTTP access. Therefore, going on the Internet is fine, checking eMail through a WebMail service is fine, but eMail, gaming, torrent and other communications are blocked. It's a common method to improve security and maintain reasonable bandwidth in public areas.
HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-08-29, at 8:25 PM, jean parker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello once again: > > I haven't posted for some time so now I am. > I have noticed a few times when connecting to a wireless network that I don't > usually use, that Safari will connect to the internet but the email program > will not connect. So I can use the internet but I can not send or receive > email. It hasn't happened very often, but it has happened once or twice > including this morning, thus I am writing to investigate. > Jean > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
