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Tiscali email login oddity

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Harry Bloomfield

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Jul 16, 2011, 5:23:07 AM7/16/11
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use two Tiscali email addresses, my main one which is always very busy
with a constant flow and second one which I very rarely use.

The rarely used one can go for months without anything appearing in its
in box. When Mailwasher and/or Outlook attempt to log into this
account, they report bad username or password at every attempt to
access the account to check for mail for that account. I have both set
to check both accounts automatically and frequently.

If I try sending an email to the less used account, then both
Mailwasher and Outlook can log into the account without difficulty.
Inbox empty or not, I can log into the account using Webmail access.

I believe the problem might have been occurring intermitantly before,
but now it seems to be a permanent problem.

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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk


Jim

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Jul 17, 2011, 5:02:34 AM7/17/11
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Sending uses a different protocol, and on Tiscali (now
Talk-Talk), no login is required if you're using your
ISP's server.

You could try resetting the password.


Adrian C

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Jul 17, 2011, 8:36:44 AM7/17/11
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On 16/07/2011 10:23, Harry Bloomfield wrote:

Try telnet on port 110 to the POP3 server, might be messages there about
whether the server likes you or not.

http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2005/03/15/Troubleshooting-email_2C00_-the-Telnet-way.aspx

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Adrian C

Harry Bloomfield

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Jul 17, 2011, 9:47:18 AM7/17/11
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After serious thinking Adrian C wrote :

That works, thanks. Now so does my normal log in :-?

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