No pop in my pop3

[susandennis]

At work, I use Outlook Express to check my personal mail (I use Outlook for work mail). I've been doing this since forever - no matter what company, no matter what network - never had it fail... until today. The Microsoft network won't let me at port 110 which is what I need to check the mail. (It won't let Outlook Express get there and I can't even telnet - which I tried just to check the port access.) It's the strangest thing.

I can get to my mail via a web reader but it's just not the same. I could probably call Helpdesk but since my access to my personal mail has zippo to do with my job, I think that would be kind of frivolous. I'll just suffer. But, lucky for all of you... Not in silence.

Comments

[fj.livejournal.com]

Did your machine get upgraded to SP2 this weekend or something? It switches on all kinds of port blocking.

[susandennis]

It got upgraded to sp2 a while ago but there were a couple of updates at the end of last week and I'll betcha one of them did it! I didn't even think about that... Thanks. I'll probably never figure out how to unblock it. I tried adding Outlook Express and Port 110 to the firewall exception list - it was not impressed. This is kind of annoying...

[geordie.livejournal.com]

My company goes through periods of deciding that the regular mail shouldn't be able to get out so they shut off the server. But the local IT guys find it convenient so they switch it back on again.

[susandennis]

I tried forcing ports open but no luck - either it's not possible from my client or I don't know what I'm doing. Finally, I decided by the end of the day, I could live without it.

[jimcarson.livejournal.com]

Has your ISP changed ports for mail? (Mine reported SBC and Yahoo shut down the standard SMTP port 25 for outgoing; so they've enabled another -- 587, I think)

[susandennis]

yep... 110 is right for the pop for my mail server... I have two different SMTP servers I can use - one uses port 25 and one port 26 - both are shut. Sending you email so maybe you can test to see if it's me or Memorex?