Re: Configure External Carriers

JA wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> JA wrote:
>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US;
>> rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060127 SeaMonkey/1.0
>>
>>> I have a number of hotmail accounts, and some of them keep getting
>>> invalid password and others are OK.
>>
>> What exactly do you mean?  You are a Mac OS X and presumably you are
>> getting an alert when you try to pop some hotmail accounts.
>>
>> I'm not familiar with Mac or OS X alerts;  nor with alternative
>> network tools to poke at the server with.  With Win, I would be
>> using something like telnet or better and engaging the server and
>> giving it the authinfo or whatever smtp/pop transaction 'by hand' or
>> by script and watching how the server behaves in the transaction.
>>
>> Then, after my little telnet session, I would see if enabling and
>> accessing the logs from my mailuser agent's transacting would be
>> useful. Sometimes you can see what is going wrong in the logs.  I
>> don't know Mac mailuser agents or how well they log.
>>
>>> the user name and password are all correct, but some do
>>> not work Any suggestions?
>>
>> I always suspect user error rather than magic in these kinds of
>> issues. The trick is for the user to figger out where s/he isn't
>> doing what s/he thinks s/he is doing.  That is one of the
>> discoveries you make when you do it all by hand with Win's telnet or
>> its equivalent, and then look at the config of the mailuser agent.
>> Sometimes the process forces you to see something errant you didn't
>> see before.
>>
> Mac 10.4.3.  When go spamcop mailbox and click on options and then
> click on spamcop tools and then configure external pop servers so
> thst spamcop will get the mail from those servers, for some of the
> hotmail accounts get error message pf invalid password even though
> everything is correct - it is only with some of the hotmail accounts
> - even deleted them and re-entered and still the same - that is why
> it is confusing.

I'd advise you to keep trying, and if you get frustrated try emailing JT
via support[at]spamcop.net.  I am seeing no errors on that screen for my
account at present, which accesses six MSN Hotmail accounts.

Followups set.

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Best Regards,  Jeff G.
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