Hello fellow Arachnians and Nettamers: This message I am posting to the both the Arachne List and to the Nettamer List. I hope you all will excuse the crosspost because it concerns a problem we share in common.
In the recent couple of weeks various Arachnians have been posting messages on subject same as above. The subject concerns the despair over the way most web-based mail services no longer work with Arachne. Many web-based mail services used to work with both Arachne and Nettamer when used as email clients and configured for accessing web-based email for POP3 and POP3/SMTP. One such service was the Old OperaMail. Many Arachnians and Nettamers used to use the Old OperaMail. We can't use the New OperaMail because the new service is a major downgrade from the Old OperaMail. The www interface for the New OperaMail does not work for DOS browsers like the Old OperaMail used to. Another downgrade is that the New OperaMail does not offer either POP3 or SMTP access. The Old OperaMail used to offer both POP3 and SMTP access, but sadly the Old OperaMail is no more. : ((( Several Arachnians have recommended that we use the free service provided by http://www.myrealbox.com. I signed up for an account there and I found that it works just fine with Arachne for web-based email and also for POP3 and SMTP access. So far I have not been able to get either POP3 access nor SMTP access to work with Nettamer, nor can I get it to work with NetMail Pro, another Nettamer product by Uncle Dave. If the POP3/SMTP access works with Arachne, then it ought to work with Nettamer too. In all my other experience with POP3/SMTP access I have always found up until just now that any POP3/SMTP access service that works with Arachne will also work with Nettamer. I have now found that I cannot contact the server at "mail.myrealbox.com" with Nettamer. I have tried many, many times. I sure am perplexed with the question about why Nettamer cannot connect with this service. Does anyone have any theories which might help to explain the problem? All the best, Sam Heywood
