[OT] Email - i WANT pop ups

[Jesterthegreat]

ok peeps... heres a question

i have a govenment / council (Education) address and i am looking for a program that i can run which will alert me of incoming emails (kind of like MSN does with hotmail accounts etc)

i need to be alerted of messages instantly as some need an urgent reply.

the email is *********@kingsdown.southend.sch.uk

so i need a program that will run with wierd addresses

thanks peeps, i know you'll come through for me :D

[hinch]

leave outlook or outlook express turned on and check the focus on mail option.

[Q`alooaith]

one of the images in your sig is too tall..



If your online all the time and use outlook up the auto check for email's to once every ten min's, then just keep it open in the background, and look at it from time to time...

[Jesterthegreat]

if outlook works... i gotta work out how to set up the server cos i keep gettin no responce

MSN / outlook were the first things i tried / thought of



Unable to poll for new messages on your HTTP server. Account: 'Kingsdown', Server: kingsdown.southend.sch.uk', Protocol: HTTPMail, Server Response: 'Method Not Allowed', Port: 0, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC35

[hinch]

if your getting no response from your email server check firewall settings/netconnection/routing/dns/authentication

thats not an outlook problem thats a server or net connetion problem/

[Jesterthegreat]

chances are its a firewall... on the local coucil's net connection so its 100% out of my hands if thats the case :(

well its the head at the school i work at that wants this up and runnin heh, so i may have to get him to get onto the council (or the email providers)

[s0apy]

the problem, according to the error message you posted, appears to be that your system cannot talk to the remote server. does your email server require SSL? this may be why you're not able to connect remotely. also, are you certain it's IMAP? i'd also check the other protocol settings too, like port numbers and so on. also, your mail server may require secure password authentication.

just a few ideas.

[edit]

sorry - just realised you had specified httpmail as the protocol for outlook. so the problem may be that you ARE on an IMAP server, and not an httpmail server at all.

[Jesterthegreat]

another error message :



Gateway Time-out

Configuration:
Account: http://www.kingsdown.southend.sch.uk/myinternet
Server: http://www.kingsdown.southend.sch.uk/myinternet
User name: *********@kingsdown.southend.sch.uk
Protocol: HTTPMail
Port: 0
Secure(SSL): 0
Code: 800cccf1



when i try IMAP it claims its not a valid IMAP server O_o

[hinch]

try connecting to it as just a normal smtp server not pop3 or imap or http mail

mainly due to the fact that all mta`s are smtp and the other delivery protocols are just delivery agents on top that read outta the smtp mail boxes.

ofc if its just a http based delivery agent and you have no access to the mta then it prolly uses ssl which will require you to check the ssl boxes in the email connectio nsettings and will require port (43 i think) opening on the firewall.

[Jesterthegreat]

Originally posted by hinch
try connecting to it as just a normal smtp server not pop3 or imap or http mail

mainly due to the fact that all mta`s are smtp and the other delivery protocols are just delivery agents on top that read outta the smtp mail boxes.

ofc if its just a http based delivery agent and you have no access to the mta then it prolly uses ssl which will require you to check the ssl boxes in the email connectio nsettings and will require port (43 i think) opening on the firewall.


i have no idea what you just said ^.^

basicly... i get 3 options : HTTP, POP3 and IMAP. i know its not POP3, and IMAP seems unlikely

when i run it (web based) it brings up the default windows username / password box you get on alot of sites. then upon entering it takes you to a site (with a little window with emails in) with a link to the mail email site. should i use this real site for the server? although that isnt the one i use to log onto...


:edit:

the mail page doesnt work as server either (HTTP Server mode)

[s0apy]

in your case, IMAP actually does seem most likely. note that most IMAP servers can also be accessed by a web-based front-end, but this does not mean they are httpmail servers. also, your email address does not necessarily reflect your physical server name - this may be something different. large organisations often use mail aliases to disguise the server names.

you need to contact whoever your support person is for the mail system. ask them the server name, server type, smtp server name (it might be different) and so on.

[Ryuben]

trillian :) sign it up as a MSN account and it _should_ work it that way....maybe
or get the mail re-directed to a hotmail account :) tehn use MSN messenger

[Forseti]

http://www.incredimail.com/

There is your solution. ;)