Hello Alexander, Tuesday, October 19, 2004, 5:37:46 PM, you wrote:
> Hello Morpheus & everyone else > 19-Okt-2004 17:23, you wrote: >> Very pleased to have you jump in. Thank you for converting my message >> to something Techies can understand rather than the IT illiterate >> idiots like me ;-) > I just felt that you and Marck could not "connect" somehow... :) > Sorry, only to germans: Hölle, was heisst "aneinander vorbeireden" auf > Englisch? (it is only a question on how to express a certain phrase so any > non-germans do not miss a thing, no hidden jokes, no nothing, promised!) >> I collect my mail by using 127.0.0.1 which you quite rightly point out >> is my own machine. My satellite connection downloads mail without my >> PC being directly connected to the internet via my ISP and dumps the >> mail into a personal folder and using 127.0.0.1 successfully locates >> this folder and gives me email. > So, as Marck already said, some sorta software *must* be installed on your > PC. It listens on port 110 for any POP3 requests and then feeds the mail > that it temporarily stored, whichever way, to the program that made the > POP3 request - that program happens to be TheBat!, and it gets something > that is already on your system, and possibly got mangled somehow on its way > there, either on the satellite route, or by the software that buffers the > content locally on your end. > Now, I don't know much about satellite technique, but I assume it is some > sort of proxy. Who configured the machine for you when you got that > satellite connection? There was no config the CD software did it all for me illieterate as I am. -- Morpheus ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
