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 In article <858029940_OASIS_@bahai.demon.co.uk>
  Terry@bahai.demon.co.uk () wrote:-

>I have just downloaded newsie 0.69 and it seems to be a very good replacement
>for Oasis as it has several features that I need, anyway can anyone tell me how
>to connect to my POP3 account with newsie as I have tried the following:-
>
>1) telnet to password.demon.co.uk and set up my POP3 password
>2) wait (demon said 15mins but I gave it 24Hrs)
>3) set up my email address,name etc
>4) set up SMTP to 'post.demon.co.uk' in newsie server setup
>5) set up POP3 to 'pop3.demon.co.uk'
>6) select check mail
>7) type pop3 password when prompted
>
>Newsie then tries to connect and tells me 'password invalid'
>
>8) select get mail gives similar
>
>can anyone help, does POP3 work OK on demon for us poor atarians?  

Newsie does not work with Demon accounts for retrieving email.
The latest versions of Newsie work fine for news, but email is a definate no
no!!

The problem is that newsie decides that the 'user' is 'gary' instead of
'the-gap' (in my case). Of course, this is totally wrong in Demon's case.

I reported this to John Rojewski ages ago, but no fix has been produced yet
:(

All I can suggest is, email John and tell him that you want to use Newsie
for email with your Demon account. If enough people pester him on it, then
I'm sure he'll concede and change it. IMHO, it should be like antmail and
have an actual 'user' field as opposed to *assuming* what the user is!!
I suggested this to John, but he seems to think that this will confuse
people :)

Regards, Gary


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 Gary Priest,Southampton,England           gary@the-gap.demon.co.uk
 Atari Falcon030 + FPU + Nemesis           http://www.the-gap.demon.co.uk/ 
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