On 30 Sep 2002, it is alleged that Mark sauntered in to netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:
> "pd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Hi. >> My ISP recently "upgraded" their mail sever and now things are working >> oddly with my N7. >> I am running Win98 SE with plenty of memory and a 20 gig drive. >> >> My isp runs POP mail. >> What I am asking is, are there specific questions I should ask my ISP >> in order to set my Server Settings for the POP mail and my Outgoin >> Server SMPT settings? > > Being a bit more specific when you say "oddly", will help determine > what's wrong and/or what to ask your ISP. Are you having trouble > retrieving mail? Sending? Both? Typically, an "upgrade" shouldn't > affect things like the server name, or properties, and shame on them if > they've made actual *changes* and didn't tell their users how they'd be > affected. In any case, if you're having problems sending, I might ask > them if you now need to "POP before SMTP" in order to send mail. Many > ISP's require that you login to retrieve your mail before you can send. > I might also ask if they've switched to authenticated SMTP, which would > require you to use a username and password associated with the SMTP > server properties. I don't know much about this, but wouldn't SMTP AUTH be better than any sort of login before SMTP scheme? Just curious. . . . /b. > Both of those issues would affect outgoing mail. As > far as retrieval, again, any changes they would've made to how you > access the POP server certainly should have been communicated to you. > > Mark > -- > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mozilla end-user questions should be directed to: * snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.general * snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.win32 * snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.mac * snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.unix Note that you need to have SSL enabled and the port set to 563.
