Hi, Cheryl
Thank you. Originally I had set all of the Eudora installations to
Require TLS or TTL or what ever it was and the user got a call to set it
to the alternate port setting and everything came back to life. It was
also associated with a possible corrupted email when things went astray.
Thanks,
Charles
-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Charles E. James, P/A II IST/Student Information Systems U. C. Berkeley California 510-642-8440 ----------------------------------------- "Peace of mind means the ability to be organized inwardly; it means inner tranquility in the midst of confusion, difficulty, conflict, or opposition. Use only positive words when talking to others and when talking to yourself. ----------------------------------------- Cheryl Olson wrote: > Hi Charles, > > Are you getting some sort of security message? If so, you might want > to try switching your Secure Sockets settings for Checking Mail to the > Required, Alternate Port setting and see if that does the trick. > > Cheryl > <<<:>>> > At 07:59 AM 2/16/2006, Charles E. James wrote: >> Good Morning, Micronetters >> >> I have a user who performed the monthly Micro$oft update and immediately >> after found that Eudora no longer functioned. The failure was in >> connecting and downloading messages from Calmail. They can send email >> out. What we did to try and correct the problem (note this doesn't occur >> on other machines using XP, updated, and Eudora - so far): >> >> 1. We checked the settings in Eudora to make sure they did not change - >> all was correct. >> 2. We re-installed that version of Eudora on the machine - still failed >> to download messages. (yes, we did re-check the settings on the >> re-install) >> 3. We rolled back the update by going back to a point prior to the >> update using XP's system restore - still failed to download messages. >> 4. We tried installing version seven from software.berkeley.edu - >> checked the settings and then failed to download messages. >> 5. The user had a lot of messages in the IN box so we migrated them to a >> folder and then it actually connected and looked as if it were >> downloading messages but froze instead. >> 6. We logged in to calmail.berkeley.edu and found about three and one >> half thousand JUNK mail sitting in the JUNK box. We figured since it was >> a re-installed/new install of Eudora it might be trying to download all >> those junk mailings so we deleted them all. The server only had about >> sixteen to thirty messages (this user gets a ton of official email). We >> then tried to download messages again and it still will not download. >> >> We have not re-installed the updates that seemed to originate this >> problem so we are at a loss as to what could be causing this Eudora >> issue. We have triple checked the settings and find all to be correct. >> This does not mean we did not miss something and hopefully one of you >> out there in micronet land can provide some suggestions on fixing this >> email issue. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Charles >> >> -- >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Charles E. James, P/A II >> IST/Student Information Systems >> U. C. Berkeley California >> 510-642-8440 >> >> ----------------------------------------- >> "Peace of mind means the ability to be organized >> inwardly; it means inner tranquility in the midst >> of confusion, difficulty, conflict, or opposition. >> >> Use only positive words when talking to others >> and when talking to yourself. >> ----------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> The following was automatically added to this message by the list >> server: >> >> For information about Micronet, including subscribing to >> or unsubscribing from its mailing list and finding out >> about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: >> <http://micronet.berkeley.edu/>. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: For information about Micronet, including subscribing to or unsubscribing from its mailing list and finding out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: <http://micronet.berkeley.edu/>.Received on Tue Feb 21 10:18:48 2006
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