EircomNet Webmail problem

tribble

Here's the problem.

If I am in work/abroad/away from my home computer I use webmail.eircom.net to check my mail.

However, whatever the eircoms mail server does to the email once it is checked through webmail it renders it invisible to POP3 clients.

I use Pegasus Mail, but I tried Opera Mail and a couple of other utilities to see if they handled it any better, no luck.

I vaguely remember Outlook Express being able to see all the mail, read or otherwise...
Do eircom really force you to choose between webmail or POP3?

Any ideas?

tribble

Nuttzz

Do eircom really force you to choose between webmail or POP3?

in a word, YES. once its "collected" by the webmail OE etc cant see it, spent a fortune on their customer care line to find this out, yahoo mail is a better system in this regard.

drrnwbb

another annoying thing about eircom.net email, is that if you dont log into the webmail part of it for a certain period of time, then all your email stored on there is deleted. a few years back i lost about 800 emails (it thankfully kept the folders for me though), even though i was accessing the pop3 eircom.net at least a dozen times a day. they never sent me an email to say the webmail contents would be deleted. customer care werr sometimes helpful, sometimes not. they said they could recover my deleted emails, but it never happened. so keep this in mind.

dw

tribble

in a word, YES. once its "collected" by the webmail OE etc cant see it, spent a fortune on their customer care line to find this out, yahoo mail is a better system in this regard.

Weird, it's not like it's benn collected and then deleted.
I don't even read most of them, just look at the headers...

Thanks lads,

tribble

The Insider

Weird, it's not like it's benn collected and then deleted.
I don't even read most of them, just look at the headers...

Once you open up your webmail account your mail has been collected from the mailserver and removed, if you wish to check your mail from a browser just go to www.mail2web.com.. enter in your username/password and you can check your mail to your hearts content and it will still be there for you when you use your mail client.

AntiRip

I'm using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 to send/receive my mail. I can receive my mail from eircom.net address but can never send them. I keep getting this back from System Administrator saying

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject:
Sent: 26/05/2004 10:11

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

'xxxxxx@xxxx.ie' on 26/05/2004 10:11
553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)

does anyone know what's this about?
Sorry to be posting in someone else's thread

seamus

Originally posted by AntiRip
I'm using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 to send/receive my mail. I can receive my mail from eircom.net address but can never send them. I keep getting this back from System Administrator saying

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject:
Sent: 26/05/2004 10:11

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

'xxxxxx@xxxx.ie' on 26/05/2004 10:11
553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)

does anyone know what's this about?
Sorry to be posting in someone else's thread

Are you dialled into eircom? Are you trying to send mail from joebloggs@eircom.net or from a different email address?

Mixie

I have the same problem - not dialed up through Eircom so can't send. Someone mentioned before that you need to 'pop' , or logon to the server prior to sending and that should work, but I could never get it to work for me on any email client unfortunately

AntiRip

Originally posted by seamus
Are you dialled into eircom? Are you trying to send mail from joebloggs@eircom.net or from a different email address?

I'm using UTVXL & yes I'm trying to send from joebloggs@eircom.net. I'm guessing you're going to say I have to be dialled into to eircom ?

seamus

Originally posted by AntiRip
I'm using UTVXL & yes I'm trying to send from joebloggs@eircom.net. I'm guessing you're going to say I have to be dialled into to eircom ?

Not necessarily. If you set up a mail server on your own machine, set it to send mail only originating from 127.0.0.1 and also setup outlook so your SMTP server is 127.0.0.1 and you should be able to send mail from any address.

If I lost you at "server", begin using a different address for outgoing mail

AntiRip

Originally posted by seamus
Not necessarily. If you set up a mail server on your own machine, set it to send mail only originating from 127.0.0.1 and also setup outlook so your SMTP server is 127.0.0.1 and you should be able to send mail from any address.

If I lost you at "server", begin using a different address for outgoing mail

thanks Seamus

Stephen

Or just use the UTV smtp server (smtp.utvinternet.com) with joebloggs@eircom.net in the From: field. it'll work.

AntiRip

Originally posted by Stephen
Or just use the UTV smtp server (smtp.utvinternet.com) with joebloggs@eircom.net in the From: field. it'll work.

That DOES work!!

Thanks a million Stephen