when you changed it to "pop3.norton.antivirus" did you change the username as well? You probably need to change it back. And in order to make it work with NAV's protection you will also need turn on "Manually configured accounts".
basic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ben Bucksch wrote: > >> H�kan Waara wrote: >> >>> If it says it can't connect, then it simply can't connect to the >>> address you specified. "pop3.norton.antivirus" hardly looks like a >>> valid DNS name to me anyway. >> >> >> >> I guess, it's some personal firewall. Which is probably not working >> correctly, or Mozilla doesn't find that hostname. >> >> > > > no its not a firewall issue. i had the sense to shut it off. > and obviously I am not the one to explain how POP3.norton.antivirus > works with email protection. Suffice to say it does. > I use a postoffice.blabla.net for POP3 and a mailhost.blabla.net for my > SMTP (thats ingoing and outgoing). > "In the mail & newsgroups window, go to edit > mail & newsgroup account > settings > server settings > server name, and fill in > pop3.norton.antivirus for the server name." > The above assumes you have already set up an account. > That is directions on how to set Norton Email Protetion for a email > account. The last sentence being very important, the account has to be > already set up.. It works for other accounts I have. > Changing it back to the original postoffice.worldnet.att.net(POP3) > should have worked. But something else must have changed, that I can't > run down. > I don't know if i made this any clearer or just clouded it more. > I don't want to delete the account. > If u think of anything, I'd appreciate it. > >
