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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 9th Apr 2006 18:52
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I'm having a problem with my Outlook email program. I'm trying to recieve email from a site and it never comes. However when I switch to my yahoo email account I can recieve email from them. But I need the email to go to my Outlook account.
I tried calling tech support but I always get a guy from frickin India who doesn't know jack sh*t .
I've tried getting it from www.webmail.twmi.rr.com too and other online mail recieving programs and that still doesn't work.

I'm hoping to draw from collective experience here, hope you guys can help!
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Chris Franklin
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Posted: 9th Apr 2006 18:59
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Server down?
Error message? Could be anything

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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 9th Apr 2006 19:06
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Nah, everything is a go, just checked. Can't figure this one out. Thanks for your input though Sunrise.
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Chris Franklin
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Posted: 9th Apr 2006 19:13
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Firewall blocking it?

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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 9th Apr 2006 19:31
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Hmmm. I'll have to check that out. While I don't think thats it seeing that this is the only case I'll check it out. But in the meantime keep em' coming people!
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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 9th Apr 2006 20:17
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have you tried mail2web.com?

Its possible someone may have sent a large email thats blockin it.

Can you ping the mail server you have to use (eg, mail.isp.com or mail.mymailpeople.co.uk)? What ISP is it?


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Dot Merix
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Posted: 9th Apr 2006 21:07
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Got a new virus scanning program or security program? Changed the settings on those lately? Could be the issue, while it doesnt take -forever-, my security program package takes a long time to download the emails from my outlook.

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IanM
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Posted: 10th Apr 2006 00:21
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Your ISP may have a spam filter, or have a limit on email sizes.

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Aoneweb
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Posted: 10th Apr 2006 00:37
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Quote: "limit on email sizes."

yes this happened to me, my email size was set too small.


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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 11th Apr 2006 16:54
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Turns out their mail server doesn't support @twmi.rr.com for some cosmic reason. Thats the first time I've heard of that. Apparently the server gets confused with the two ".'s" it has.

I just had to make a yahoo account and email them again.

How weird is that! Thanks for all your help guys. And I love mail2web.com! I use it in school all the time, it's awesome!
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Jeku
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Posted: 11th Apr 2006 19:21
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Gets confused by two dots? I've never seen that before, ever. A large percentage of email addresses have two dots


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x1bwork
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Posted: 11th Apr 2006 19:30 Edited at: 11th Apr 2006 19:36
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Bit,extreme,sid,but try installing WinPCap http://www.winpcap.org/ then Ethereal http://www.ethereal.com/ . Set ethereal to sniff whichever NIC you use to go out and start it. Then start your email client (outlook,right?) you should very briefly see both your password and login shoot out then the direction of where you email starts and ends. See just how far youre going. May give you a better idea as to where the problems lies and needs attention.

Now try sending again and see if its reaching you and being denied(possible router,firewall,filter,problem) or just not reaching you,period,as in,isnt even leaving the server,in which case, they very well may have something going on with their filters.

Additonaly,can you run a trace route and are all the hops up between you and them? or a dns server temp down?

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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 12th Apr 2006 22:52
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x1b work: Thanks for that little tutorial. I tried it and it was kind of interesting to see how that whole process worked. Conclusion? Everything is A-ok on my end. Something's really weird at their end.

Jeku: Yea, never EVER heard of that either. There probably on a really low budget. Maybe it has to do with this site just getting off the ground a month ago too. I'm sure they'll get @twmi.rr.com emails working soon, it is very weird.

Oh well, you learn something new everday huh?
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