E-mail is broken help meh plz!!

Jabba_the_SLUT

The host 'mail1.eircom.net' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the server name correctly. Account: '****', Server: 'mail1.eircom.net', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10093, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D

help me plz when i open my mail a/c i get this fúcking message and i am completly stumped ... ne tips wud b much appreciated

chernobyl

if its a free account then its mail2 otherwise its mail (ie) if you pay a yearly subscription.

Dave

Change mail1.eircom.net to mail2.eircom.net, and you're sorted.

-Dave

Jabba_the_SLUT

ta very much lads

[This message has been edited by Jabba_the_SLUT (edited 21-06-2001).]

[EDIT] wh00t it worked rentz

[This message has been edited by Jabba_the_SLUT (edited 21-06-2001).]

Renton

[N] Resolved 159.134.237.20 to mail1.eircom.net
[N] Resolved 159.134.237.20 to mail2.eircom.net

Nope.. I'd say more likely you should do this
->

Load Outlook Express -> Tools -> Accounts -> Mail

you'll see a list with one or more items, Double click on the one that looks like Eircom (mail1.eircom.net) ?

Once you've opened that, check this

In the servers tab
It SHOULD say ...


My incoming mail server is a POP3 Server
Incoming mail (POP3): 159.134.237.20
Outgoing mail (SMTP): 159.134.237.20

Incoming Mail Server:
A/C Name: your a/c name
Password: your password

[ ] Log on using Secure password authblah

Outgoing:

[ ] My server requires authentication

In the Advanced tab

SMTP port = 25
POP3 port = 110
Make sure the boxes for SSL are off
infact all those boxes shud be off

In the Connection tab
The best thing here (imho) is to switch that tick box off, and when you connect to the net, load up OE and check your mail

(You do have to connect to the net to check ur mail)

RentZ

_CreeD_

Yup probably just a fkd outlook express account (presuming you can ping mail1). Dont forget to backup your existing mail before you go playing with it (and your address book just to be safe).

moist

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jabba_the_SLUT:
The host 'mail1.eircom.net' could not be found. </font>

Dontcha just lurve applications that give straightforward, clear and nonmisleading error messages.
From the above I would have suspected a DNS problem of some description.
Perhaps thats just me :-)

moist

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Renton:

Incoming mail (POP3): 159.134.237.20
Outgoing mail (SMTP): 159.134.237.20
</font>

Actually mail1 and mail2 both resolve to 4 mail servers, 159.134.237.19 (.20|.21|.22).
So if one mailserver failes, your client will (should ?) timeout and use the next one in the list.
Its called redundancy :-)

I'd recomend that you put mail1.eircom.net in the config, although, perhaps my origional assumption was right
and it was in fact a DNS problem and putting
in the IP circumvented it.

So, what have we learned today then?
:wq

davil

Originally posted by Renton
infact all those boxes shud be off

Not strictly true. If you often have large mails, you should tick break apart messages larger than 500KB.

But in most cases it is true that all boxes in that tab should be unticked.

whosurpaddy

Originally posted by Renton



My incoming mail server is a POP3 Server
Incoming mail (POP3): 159.134.237.20
Outgoing mail (SMTP): 159.134.237.20

did u just pick those ip addresses outta the sky? when i pinged i got
159.134.198.135 for both mail1 & mail2

Frank Grimes

Originally posted by whosurpaddy
did u just pick those ip addresses outta the sky? when i pinged i got
159.134.198.135 for both mail1 & mail2

This thread is over 2 years old, they've changed the mail server's IP since then.

Oh yeah,

whosurpaddy

wow never even checked the date.