[X4U] mail still fried

[Jeffrey Stormshak]

Mitchell -
I've experience this same problem for several days in a row and at  
that point used "nmap" to scan my ISP for the POP3 Port of 110.  I've  
noticed that the Comcast (ISP Provider) didn't have that Port Open  
which indicated to me that the "mail.comcast.net" Service for POP  
wasn't listening on that Port.  NOTE: I've been using their POP  
Service for several years prior to this problem.  Even tried another  
Email Client with the same outcome as well (Entrouage).

After (2) days of watching for it, it finally display as an Active  
Port and it hasn't gone "off-line" since.  In my area (Chicago)  
Comcast has a large Service based and its not uncommon for their Mail  
Services to go down from time to time.  It just didn't happen for  
such a long time that I initially though it was my Email Client or  
network settings.

I would contact your ISP to have them look into their Mail Server or  
perform said Scan using either "nmap" or Apple's Network Utility's  
Port Scan App to determine if the Port is up and available.

Hope this helps!
J.
On May 23, 2005, at 7:05 AM, m senft wrote:

> Running a G5 2.0 DP with 10.4.1. Clicking "get new mail" in Mail
> causes the accounts to instead go offline. Mail settings appear to be
> the same as for the prior setup (an aged G4 with 10.3.9) except
> initially, Mail on the G5 could receive but not send. I changed one
> setting from requiring the password to not requiring it (but leaving
> alone elsewhere) and it the became able to send but not receive. And
> yes, I looked at all of Apple's help/support pages and nothing helps.
> The ISP is Cablevision/Optimum Online.
>
> Thanks,
>
>      Mitchell
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