Eudora and megapath hosted email
JC Dill
the company mail server.
The mail server is a megapathdsl server. I can connect using Outlook,
Outlook Express, and Mozilla, but I'm unable to connect with Eudora.
I tried to import the account from OE, and the import went perfectly,
but Eudora is unable to connect. Eudora doesn't see the Outlook or
Mozilla accounts, so I can't import from those accounts.
I get the following error message:
mail.companyname.com, Connecting to the Mail Server..., [11:42:42 AM]
Could not connect to "mail.companyname.com" Cause: connection timed
out (10060)
I'm using the Eudora 6.0.0.10 beta, and I'm unable to upgrade to the
released version at this time (since they disabled the junk filter in
the released version unless you pay, even if you use the ad-supported
version, which SUCKS). If anyone has a saved installer of a later
beta version of 6.0, please let me know!
Any other suggestions, besides dumping Eudora?
jc
R Green WoWsat.com
? If you have, did you get the same inaccessible message? Assuming that
you have entered the correct incoming mail server pathname, it could be that
your company server requires secure name authentication which is supported
by Outlook/express but not by Eudora.
R Green
Tech support
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"JC Dill" <usenet-s...@vo.cnchost.com> wrote in message
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JC Dill
<news<>@wowsat.com> wrote:
>Have you tried other pop email client such as Pegasus or Netscape mail or..
>? If you have, did you get the same inaccessible message? Assuming that
>you have entered the correct incoming mail server pathname, it could be that
>your company server requires secure name authentication which is supported
>by Outlook/express but not by Eudora.
I was able to check email with Outlook, with Outlook Express, and with
Mozilla. Eudora was only able to "see" the OE account, it was unable
to see the others to import settings from the OL account or the MZ
account.
I tried using authentication and I also tried turning authentication
off.
Finally, I renamed (saved) my eudora.ini and then started Eudora again
and created the new account as the default account with default
authentication settings, and THAT worked. But I need to check email
with all the other accounts, and I have a buncha custom stuff in my
eudora.ini (additional taboo headers etc.) and I didn't have time to
rebuild the ini file to have everything I needed. So for now, I'm
using MZ to check email on this account.
Is there a limit to how many accounts Eudora can support? This was
the 10th personality.
I'm not at all inclined to register Eudora 6 or to keep using or
recommending the product. At this juncture, I'm getting ready to try
Pegasus and jump ship off the Eudora boat, as it really looks like
it's sinking. Why oh WHY haven't they added functionality to thread
messages yet???
jc
Katrina Knight
> I tried using authentication and I also tried turning authentication
> off.
There are some other settings that have to do with authentication besides
just on and off. Sometimes you have to change some of those settings to
get authentication to work with a specific server.
> Finally, I renamed (saved) my eudora.ini and then started Eudora again
> and created the new account as the default account with default
> authentication settings, and THAT worked. But I need to check email
> with all the other accounts, and I have a buncha custom stuff in my
> eudora.ini (additional taboo headers etc.) and I didn't have time to
> rebuild the ini file to have everything I needed. So for now, I'm
> using MZ to check email on this account.
That's your choice. Copying the sections that deal with the other
personalities from the old ini file to the new one shouldn't be a big
deal. Copying the stuff from the [settings] section could be more of a
headache, since you'd have to be sure you were copying the right things
and not anything that might be the cause of your problem.
> Is there a limit to how many accounts Eudora can support? This was
> the 10th personality.
There's not a specific limit. as far as I know. Eudora does like its ini
file to stay below abotu 64K though. Creating a large number of
personalities can cause a problem with that sometimes, although 10
wouldn't take most people above that limit.
> I'm not at all inclined to register Eudora 6 or to keep using or
> recommending the product.
That's your choice again. If you don't like it, trying other programs is
the right thing to do. There are lots of choices to choose from.
> At this juncture, I'm getting ready to try
> Pegasus and jump ship off the Eudora boat, as it really looks like
> it's sinking.
It isn't going to the destination some people want. That's quite different
from sinking.
> Why oh WHY haven't they added functionality to thread
> messages yet???
Because it isn't high enough on their priority list I'd guess. Personally,
I don't care if they ever do. It just isn't something that matters at all
to me. It does matter to some people though, so I'd think they ought to
do work on doing it. For all I know, maybe they are working on it and
haven't finished it yet. They don't exactly tell us what they're doing
behind the scenes for the most part.
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Katrina