rans6andrew
21st Dec 2015, 15:42
For the last part of last week we were beset with email issues, again. My partner found that she could neither receiver nor send emails or use Mailwasher to sift the cr@p from the wanted. My incoming and Mailwashing was working OK but I was unable to send any out. We had different error messages to each other.
As we had been having some email issues with our pop server for about a month and the sys op failed to explain what he had been changing in the setup we were not surprised. I think we have been through every combination of secure password/encrypted emails that our Thunderbird browser can handle in the last few weeks so I decided that enough was enough and I moved our email service back to a paid for service with proper support.
While trying to find out what was happening we gleaned that the old service would be cut off in the new year anyway as the major (only!) other user was changing his business over to Gmail.
That was when we found out that the issues of unable to send and receive were not caused by the pop server. After messing about all day on Friday I finally pinned the blame on Avast free anti-virus. It had performed some sort of update beyond the normal AV definitions and messed up everything. Once I uninstalled it we were up and running properly.
This is a shame, we had already been around the trials and tribulations of AVG before ditching that. AVG seemed to work but it made both machines it was put on run SSSOOOO SSLLLLOOOOOOWWWLY that it was often difficult to tell if they were still accessing the world wide wait.
What else might be worth a go?
Thanks,
Rans6............................
As we had been having some email issues with our pop server for about a month and the sys op failed to explain what he had been changing in the setup we were not surprised. I think we have been through every combination of secure password/encrypted emails that our Thunderbird browser can handle in the last few weeks so I decided that enough was enough and I moved our email service back to a paid for service with proper support.
While trying to find out what was happening we gleaned that the old service would be cut off in the new year anyway as the major (only!) other user was changing his business over to Gmail.
That was when we found out that the issues of unable to send and receive were not caused by the pop server. After messing about all day on Friday I finally pinned the blame on Avast free anti-virus. It had performed some sort of update beyond the normal AV definitions and messed up everything. Once I uninstalled it we were up and running properly.
This is a shame, we had already been around the trials and tribulations of AVG before ditching that. AVG seemed to work but it made both machines it was put on run SSSOOOO SSLLLLOOOOOOWWWLY that it was often difficult to tell if they were still accessing the world wide wait.
What else might be worth a go?
Thanks,
Rans6............................