Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > I.T. time - NTL & 'pop' mail a question

[Iconic944ss]

My ISP, NTLWorld...seem to have been playing around in the NE and other areas with accounts lately....

Being greedy I have 3 email accounts that I gather using Outlook express.

Within the last month there have been about 6 seperate times when I have lost some incoming Email for a few days at a time. I believe NTL are the cause of this.

Here is my reasoning....Outlook Express gathers my Hotmail Email without any problem - Hotmail I understand, uses a HTTP server rather than the POP servers that NTL and Yahoo seem to need (hense my NTL & Yahoo mail dont get through BUT, I can still log into the Email via the webpages instead).

Am I right in thinking if NTL are doing something to their mail servers then I wont get anything that also needs a POP server or is there much more to it than this????

I've done the important thing though and changed my Email addy here in the DSC to my Hotmail address so that the priority stuff gets through

Just another hair pulling event over for a while - hopefully - as things seem to be resolved again!

Frank

[Edited on 25-11-2004 by Iconic944ss]