re: E-mail not working, though I can connect to the Internet
Sunday, March 12, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dan
(1278 messages posted)
You pay your ISP--put them to work...
Did you try this for your DialUp?:
Incoming (POP3) pop.tiscali.co.uk
Outgoing (SMTP) mail.tiscali.co.uk
Along with the proper password and other settings for that account...
Dan
On Friday, March 10, 2006 at 4:28 pm, IAN RIPPEY wrote:
>This may have been dealt with previously, though as looking for "E-mail" in this
>forum gives pages and pages of "hits" and I haven't the time to go through them,
>I think it is best to start from scratch. I am afraid that this will show my ignorance,
>or rathe extreme confusion, about the workings of E-mail, etc. I have previously
>posted here using my other computer (using Windows 98), but this for some reason
>has not been able to receive or send E-mails since about 2 pm on Tuesday 7.3.2006.
>It is however able to log on to the Internet and surf the web, but even from there
>you cannot get on Outlook Express. For some days before, I was only able to send
>and receive E-mails by getting on to the Internet first; if I first loaded Outlook
>Express and tried to send and receive E-mails it didn't work, and usually sent a
>message "Invalid user name or password". I have Broadband Internet with Metronet
>on the old computer, but my E-mail address is j.rippey@tiscali.co.uk (from a dial-up
>account). In the Outlook Tools tab the incoming server (POP3) is pop.tiscali.co.uk
>and the outgoing server is smtp.metronet.co.uk. There is a password for the Metronet
>Account (which I shall call "M") and a number, at various times, for the Tiscali
>Account (which I shall call "T1, T2, etc"). I have tried various changing pop.tiscali.co.uk
>to pop.metronet.co.uk and smtp.metronet.co.uk to smtp.tiscali.co.uk with various
>combinations of passwords, but none work so far. First of all, should be the incoming
>and outgoing servers be pop.tiscali.co.uk and smtp.metronet.co.uk, and if not, what?
>Also, should I be using the Metronet or the Tiscali passwords? I have E-mailed Tiscali
>"Customer Support" asking for help but if it is anything like their Broadband support,
>that it asking for the moon. Any suggestions would be welcome; there are probably
>dozens of E-mails waiting in my Inbox.
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