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Subject: Clever............or wot!

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Dave P.

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Date Posted: 17:13:19 06/01/05 Wed

Just when I start to think I've got the hang of this computing lark, along comes a problem that takes all bloody day to sort out. The thing is, I don't know if it was my brains that sorted it or the problem resolved itself?

When I logged onto my email programme last night, I got a message telling me that either my 'username' or 'password' was 'invalid'. I hadn't changed anything and when I went into the self help (now there's a misnomer, if ever I saw one!) section of the email programme, it told me to delete the log in details and re-enter them. This I did, still not recognised! Onto the the 'status' page of the blueyonder help site, to see if there were any outstanding problems with the ISP and there was one message saying that there was maintenance being carried out on the email platform, expected to last for 18 hours. So I thought, aha! that's the problem and waited until today. All day long I have been trying to log on to check my email and still kept getting the 'invalid username/password' message and that changed after about an hour of trying to 'POP3 not found'. After checking the 'status' page again, the message said work started at 0700 and would continue for 90 min. Well this was 2:0clock in the afternoon so I started to mess around, changing passwords, reconfiguring the accounts etc. Nothing seemed to work! After deleting all my aliases and reducing my email account to the bare minimum of one account, it worked again. So I'm quite pleased with myself. Still have that niggling feeling that it would have started working again all by itself though!

One of the downsides of not receiving loads of spam/junk email is that I constantly worry that my email programme is working OK, I don't really get enough in a day to reassure me! No pleasing some people is there?.................

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