On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Tony Alfrey wrote:
I will need to find some sort of browser for this old box.
Check out iCab, although I don't know how far back iCab will work with.
If I had some sort of terminal window on the IIvx (like on my
MacBook), I suppose I could talk to the earthlink POP server
manually. Do you have any idea if there is some sort of log on the
old macs that keep track of this sort of thing?
Nope, nothing really like that pre-OS X.
Check out www.macorchard.com, they should have links to some terminal
programs that should work with System 7.6. That will at least let you
try to connect to the POP server manually. However, you may still
have a DNS issue as your original complaint said it couldn't find
earthlink.com. Since you said you think the PPP connection is
actually up, I'd next look at a possible DNS failure. Have you
manually assigned the DNS servers in your TCP/IP control panel?
PS- I see you have some RealBasic stuff on your website: I wonder
if there is a way that I might use some canned RealBasic script to
be able to talk manually to the earthlink server from my MacBook
and possibly learn in this way specifically what "commands" the
earthlink POP server is not happy with?
If you are starting on the MacBook, just use the terminal and telnet.
POP Servers just use standard telnet over port 110. Open the
terminal, type 'telnet mail.earthlink.net 110'. It should connect to
the pop server (this assumes earthlink is still using
mail.earthlink.net as their pop server address, if not, replace that
with whatever earthlink is using these days, I haven't been a
customer of theirs for probably 10 years so things may very well have
changed in that time).
-chris
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