Re: Weird problems

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From: Michael Santovec (michael_santovec_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 02/02/05


Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:34:43 -0800

1) The mail server says:
ERR pop operation is not allowed for this user
That means that either they don't support POP3 access anymore for your account (maybe they
want more money for POP3 access), or you've entered the wrong account information.
Contact your ISP for help.

-- 
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"Beck" <None@Home.com> wrote in message news:j4_Ld.82$jY4.2945@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au...
> Hiya all,
>
> I just wanted to ask another question. I asked earlier about compacting my OE and I went 
> ahead and OKed it. Now I am having a strange problem (Mind you I have compacted before 
> with no problems).
> I try to download my mail only to have a little thing pop-up asking for me to re-enter 
> my username and password (which are there in the boxes and have not been changed (I can 
> log into my ISPs mail site to get my e-mail). I re-entered them a few times (checking 
> for caps lock etc) all I get is:
> There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your Password was rejected. Account: 
> '***', Server: ***, Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR pop operation is not allowed 
> for this user.', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 
> 0x800CCC92
> I put the *** where I don't want personal details shown.
> So, this is problem 1. Problem 2 is that a friend of mine replied to an e-mail I sent 
> her a few days ago and I got this (when I went to my ISPs mail site) :
> A message was sent to you that was returned to the sender(bounced)
> because it would have caused your mailbox quota to be exceeded.
>
> The following is the reason that the message was over quota:
>
> Quota Type: total bytes stored
> Quota Available: 5120
> Total Quota: 5120
>
> The following is the information on the message that was bounced:
>
> Sender: <***>
> Subject: [No Subject]
> Size: 5430
> Message ID: <***>
> Date: Wed Feb 2 00:22:09 2005
>
> Reply-To: [No Reply-To]
>
> To fix this problem, delete some messages from your mailbox, and contact
> the sender to resend the message.
>
> If the size of the message is too big, contact the sender to reduce the
> size of the message and resend the message.
> _________________________________
>
> So, I asked my friend if she sent anything with the reply and she said no, I also 
> checked my Inbox which has 5 messages all totalled up to 31mb. Plus that e-mail came 
> from the ISPs mail site so it could not have detected my inbox size?!
> Any ideas?
> Thanks again,
> Beck.
> 


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