ISP's will NEVER admit to anything that is screwed up. POP3 is the way you receive email and is your ISP's doing. To be sure, temp. disable your firewall, and any AV software that might be doing POP3 scanning. Sometimes these two things can slow down your incoming mail. If you still have the problem, it's your ISP. -Clint
God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner Want to exchange links with us? http://OrpheusComputing.com ) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Helene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi All. I'm so fed up.. I need HELP.. LOL. I have a 5 year old computer.(Gateway).. I use Windows 98.. .I have Norton System Works 2003 installed. and thats working fine. I use Netscape 7.0 for my browser, as well as for my mail. and Earthink 5.0..(they're sending me the updated Earthlink, as a "possible way to fix this". I dont' download alot of things.. Only Adobe, and Adaware.. Thats about all.. This is my personal computer, for email. and browsing only. I had a problem with connecting..(recently).. so the phone company - fixed the "line" and I'm connecting faster.. Using regular dial-up.. but it's faster.. BUT, before this happened.. and whats still happening is this. I get these error messages.. "Failed to connect to POP 3 Server" Connection timed out.. when connecting to.... The operation failed. when attempting to connect to Start Earthlink.net Okay. so these are the 3 error messages I get VERY often.. I called Earthlink tech support last nite, cause I wasn't able to send ANY emails.. They have no clue. what is happening.. So what I did.. was do a Go Back. and I got it to work..(did a Go Back.. for about 4 hours) and everything is working.. but I still get those same error messages..(actually, the one I just got.. was "connection timed out".. Earthlink, tech support says.. this is normal.. and happens all the time.. Well, it just started about a month ago. They said, just reboot.. or hit refresh.. or click off the connection, and re-connect.. Any ideas why this is happening,, and why all of a sudden. Also, does anybody recommend upgrading Netscape.. to the next one..(I think there is one.. above this)??? Thanks for your help. Helene [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
