okay how do I get my mail???

Stan Harder plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
09 Feb 2002 21:38:36 -0700


I'm popping mail from the old netmail.home.com account and the new
cox.net address without problems. I've kept on monitoring the old
address in case something useful comes through. Haven't had a problem
other than their cox.net servers being maxed out from time to time, or
so it seems. 

On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 09:50, Carl Parrish wrote:
> Thanks Victor for your reply, 
> However so far its not working. I can ping both mail and
> netmail.home.com but I get "could not connect to mail". (oh well back to
> cox tech support). BTW mozilla (my *real* mail tool) has multiple
> personalities <g>. So many people asked for it that I was suprised at
> the backlash we got from Netscape 4.x users who _liked_ the profile
> method. Oh well can't please everyone. 
> 
> Carl P. 
> 
> On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 00:52, Victor Odhner wrote:
> > Absolutely.  I just switch back and forth.
> > Just use "mail" as both your POP and SMTP
> > server names.  If this doesn't work, you
> > can POP in from anywhere using netmail.home.com,
> > I think.
> > 
> > My mail client is Netscape 4.7.  My method is
> > clunky because Netscape only allows a profile
> > to have one POP server defined.  You are
> > using Evolution, which hopefully accepts
> > multiple POP servers.
> > 
> > (This transition is part of why Cox recommended
> > Outlook Express, which allows you to have
> > multiple personalities at the same time.)
> > 
> > When I want to see if there's anything but spam
> > left in my @Home account, I just do the following
> > with Netscape 4.7.  You should be able to use this
> > to deduce how to do it with Evolution.
> > 
> >   Edit / Preferences / Mail & Newsgroups
> >   Edit my pop server, set it to "mail"
> >   Type "mail" also in my SMTP server
> >   OK
> > 
> > Now I ask Netscape to get my new messages.
> > They load into my same inbox, which is nice.
> > 
> > NOTE -- I do not change my "identity".
> > But if I'm using the mail / mail servers,
> > and want to unsubscribe from a mailing list,
> > then I need to change my "identity" to
> > vodhner@home.com when sending the unsubscribe
> > message, then change it back.
> > 
> > Good luck,
> > 
> > Vic
> > 
> > Carl Parrish wrote:
> > > 
> > > Alright update for my DHCP problems with cox. I gave up on calling them
> > > and sent an email telling them my problems and that I thought I may need
> > > to have my MAC address reset. The next morining I got a replay where
> > > they said they needed to "reprovision" me (???). Anyways after they did
> > > it I was able to get an IP address. And with the exception of the
> > > network just going out on me for a few mins here and there its been a
> > > rather good change over. *Except* I thought I would still have access to
> > > my @home address. I switched everything over on cox end but I assumed
> > > that either all my @home mail would be forwarded to my new address or I
> > > would still be able to pop the old account. But I can't seem to get to
> > > my old mail server and its deff not being forwarded. Anyone have any
> > > idea's how I can get mail sent to my old account?
> > > 
> > > Carl P.
> > > 
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> > 
> > 
> > Let me be a part of your solution:
> >  http://www.newearth.org/~victor/resume.html
> >    -- or --
> >  http://members.cox.net/vodhner/
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