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POP e-mail--arrghhh!
Hi--
Well, I managed to do a lot of hand editing and used davidh's ideas about spreadsheets and got a workable mail list imported into Evolution. I even see how I can use the same trick to import it into Thunderbird. Now, I can't get either one to connect to CIS to collect my e-mail. Or rather, I can't get Evo to do so, although it does work OK with ComCast. Thunderbird made one run to CIS, collected the e-mail, and now refuses to do it again. Evo reports: "Failed to read a valid greeting from POP server pop.compuserve.com". This was after it sat there "waiting" for CIS probably over a minute. What seems a big clue to me: neither program is asking for my CIS password, even tho both do for ComCast. The changes I made in Thunderbird's set up, as far as I remember, related to unchecking "check my e-mail every 10 minutes," and telling it to leave the mail on the server for now. Those should not have stopped it working. I have tried about every security radio box it offers and no go. Let me tell you what I have for Evo; maybe that will give us some clues (I am cutting and pasting, in case there is a typo someone else sees): Quote:
BTW, I did check on CIS's site for instructions for setting up my e-mail client, and so help me, they really have it buried--could not find it at all. In fact, I could not figure out how to login where it asks for my screen name and password. Right after that I did access my POP3 CIS account from both Yahoo and mail2web, so I think that says I have the right passwords and usernames--but no success on the CIS site. Weird! Thanks for any help you can give me!
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