On Monday, August 19, 2002, at 07:40 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok all you POP geniuses......
I respectfully decline appellation "genius" but will proceed to
respond anyway.
> what on earth could be wrong?
In my experience there are several possibilities including sun spots
and cosmic rays, but I digress.
Further, in my experience "cable" is just a different way to make a
connection between my email client and the "system" we call the "Internet;
" by this I mean that many aspects of behavior (and, yes, problems too)
are found in all such "systems."
> I have been going back and forth with attbi.com about their
> server being "busy" far too many times in the last 3 weeks.
> This is something new, and I have not changed my Emailer
> settings but they are blaming me.
I, for one, have long given up on understanding all the quirks of
anything using electricity, particularly computers.
That said, I believe I have repeatedly experienced situations where
"settings change themselves." How? I don't know; I'm just sharing my
personal observations.
Have you looked at your dated screen shots of your various settings
panels? How do your current settings compare to those?
If you don't have dated screen shots of your various settings panels I
respectfully suggest that they are a simple and valuable means of avoiding
reliance on memory.
> Here is an example of my log message:
>
> Checking email account "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> ** Pop server error "-ERR mail storage services
> unavailable, wait a few minutes and try again."
>
> One idiot tech told me that I shouldn't be using the word MAIL.
> I said oh really...and so then what DO you call your pop and
> smtp servers? <snicker>
> Another one said, it's my emailer, tell it to take mail off
> the server, I must have that checked to leave it on.....
> ..blarrrrrrgh!! Wrong again...moron!
Snicker and snarl and growl all you wish but I recall situations where
adding the word "mail" to the POP and/or SMTP addresses favorably changed
behavior. I also recall other situations where removing those words
favorably changed behavior. Why sometimes one way and other times the
other way? Beats me, I don't try to psychoanalyse these machines, I just
try to co-exist with them.
> I finally call and they admit they are having this problem as
> was Earthlink earlier in the week. At least Earthlink posted
> it and admitted it. Earthlink is fixed.
Not a day goes by that a busy server doesn't hiccup, maybe even burp
and sometimes actually belch (these are technical terms, at least the
people working around servers seem to use them a lot).
> But not attbi.com who insisted in about 15 emails that since
> they can get into my webmail just fine, it must be OK...and
> it must be MY email client, which of course I have not
> changed AT ALL......
Please see my comment above about settings seemingly changing without
my involvement.
> What to do with these morons???? :-)
Sigh!!! I've long given up on even hoping that others in the world
should be as perfect as I am.
Best regards, and good luck,
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+ Dana Point, California USA
+ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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