Is it AOL stopping me being able to get into my tiscali email inbox or is Tiscali down?

Stuck at my Parents house (they're away) till the weekend and they got crappy AOL and Parental Controls

I neeeeeeeeeeed to see if anyone loves me

 

the site is up

i know the answer to the last bit

 

I cant check my tiscali emails either via my mates AOL.

what i do is connect to AOL but dont use there programme, I open internet explorer and view them from there

 

Awww fanks babe x

Cheers Mr Manc, will try that now, poxy crappy AOL.

 

Sorted, cheers me dear

 

 

as per manc, use the webmail service.

sounds like their pop3 server is blocking traffic from non-tiscalli dialups...

most people dont block pop3 (incoming) only smtp (outgoing) so it's a tad odd...

 

AOL ha a nasty habbit of randomly blocking port25 too

 

Phil

whats port25 do and how do you "un"! blck it

nige

 

i assume ur talkin bout aol dial up as ive had aol broadband for ages now and its been faultless

 

as above

 

Nige its the port *most* pop3 mail servers use. AOL doesnt like people being able to use POP3 mail (even if it aint to their servers, but to another mail server), so randomly block it. So sometimes, you try to send an email and itll fail and fail and fail then work fine the following day

Ive not found a way to unblock it propperly as its on AOLs servers i think

 

Nope its AOL broadband

 

AOL owe me £250 quid said a few hometruths to the buster on the phone earlier