Hi Thomas, On Friday, August 01, 2008 at 11:19:32 AM you wrote:
MM>> All of a sudden I wasn't getting mail. Discovered that the SMTP port MM>> setting had changed from 25 to 585. I didn't change it. The same thing MM>> happened to another TB! user - theirs was a different server than MM>> mine. Is this The Bat! or is it gremlins? TF> Gremlins. Definitely. ;-) I thought so. Thank you so much, Thomas. My technical expertise is improving! MM>> Has anyone else had a problem like this? Thanks for insights. TF> No, gremlins are not allowed in this country. lol TF> Seriously though, I am surprised this happens, but then, we are using TF> Windows. But what bothers me more is that the same thing is confirmed TF> by another TB! user. Hm. Coincidences on this level don't usually TF> happen in computing. Lots of squirrelly things now. TF> As Henrik pointed out, SMTP is for sending, POP is for retrieving TF> messages. Did you have any change in port number for receiving TF> messages? No change in POP, it was 110. TF> And, what was the error message in the log when you couldn't TF> download mails? Well, I just looked at the log which only shows today's activity. I'm not exactly sure what it said (yesterday). Sorry! Recently I had to reinstall TB! onto the emergency laptop while my Toshiba learns its fate at the hands of the techs. All the settings were checked at that time. I thought to have seen something about this on the list, but I guess not. Thanks for the smile. -- Regards, Maggie ____________ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080103030.html?hpid=topnews ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Emailing with The Bat! 4.0.24 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.0.24.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
