Topic: e.mail no go

[bloodrunner]

can any 1 help me  i can send out mail but zero gets in but internal work ok??
i run a outlook exp 6
and the only mail i get is a bad mess as seen below

fetchmail: couldn't time-check the run-control file
fetchmail: lock creation failed.

fetchmail: couldn't time-check the run-control file
fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of mail.myisp.xxx
fetchmail: lock creation failed.

help any 1 please  you can mail me at this 1 at work  l.whitby@kaksenmoor.oldham.sch.uk
P.S
how do i run a 3rd party software on v5 ?? as you can tell i waz a windows man till now ???

[Rod]

I had a problem for a few months collecting email from my ISP's mail server. My email program was Eudora on an Win98 machine with DSL going into the e-smith box. I could send mail but not receive unless I used my old dial-up connection on my PC. I also had to use dial-up to FTP out and to collect info from newsgroups. After much advice and head scratching, I solved it myself by going into each Windows program and changing some settings. In Eudora, I had to change the name of the mail server from mail.myisp.net to the IP address which is a number string that your ISP can tell you, or you can get it yourself with the ping command at the MS-DOS prompt in Windows.  C:>ping mail.myisp.net  This command will return the IP address (among other things) that will look something like this 206.56.172.1  That's what worked for me. If you access other servers at you ISP with other software, you'll have to change those settings also.

HTH

Rod