Can't get email

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Can't get email
started by: rogerhunter

Posted by rogerhunter on Jan. 19 2006,21:42

I've been trying out numerous distros and DSL is the latest.

None really suit me so far but all have the same problem; I can't get email. I can get on the net just fine, once I got a real modem, found out that PPP was the program to get it started but email just won't work. My ISP says it's not them. They don't care what OS I'm using.

But all I get is "login failed" when I ask for the mail.

Any ideas?

Roger

Posted by Delboy on Jan. 20 2006,11:57

Hi Roger,
You need to supply a few more details:
which e-mail? sylpheed, Opera, other? webmail, pop3 account?
type of modem? dial-up? adsl?

In the meantime, If you say you can get onto the web, then you should be able to access you ISP and pop account using something like Mail2web:

< http://www.mail2web.com/ >

Put in your account username and details and call up you inbox on the server where you can read, reply, forward etc.
It's free.

Posted by rogerhunter on Jan. 20 2006,15:59

Yes, should have added that in the first place.

I'm running an AMD Athlon, 850MHz, 512M RAM and using whatever is on the DSL live CD v 2.1. I have an external 56k modem on ttyS1 with dial up connection to my ISP.

I've tried 6 or more different distros and currently have PCLinuxOS installed in it's own partitions.

I can get into the net but can't get into the mail server. The ISP says "login failed". It's a POP3 setup, using the same settings that work under Win98SE.

Roger

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 22 2006,15:59

Hmm...

Are your user accounts case sensitive? Do you need to enter uppercase and lowercase letters for usename and password?

Posted by rogerhunter on Jan. 22 2006,19:13

No.

And they're all lower case anyway.

Roger