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In article <39a58c1a@news.server.worldonline.co.uk> slate wrote:

>I've just upgraded from Outlook Express to Outlook 2000 (5). Now when I try
>to download my mail from demons POP3 servers, my password is not recognised.
>I still have Outlook Express on my machine and the password is recognised in
>that program. Other mail accounts work fine under 2000, as does my news
>account. I selected to import all my emails into Outlook 2000 and that
>worked fine, and all accounts were imnported fine apart from my Demon POP3.

Have you remembered that if you use a normal dialup password for POP3
you have to be dialled into Demon in order to collect your mail?

If dialled in via another ISP you need to set a special POP3 password in
order to collect demon email.

>All help welcome,
>Thanks
>Slate
>slate@rozak.yourpants.demon.co.uk
>
>Remove yourpants to reply by mail

I bet the owners (or potential future owners) of yourpants.demon.co.uk
are just going to love you for pulling a stunt like that - take a look
at Demon's AUP and see the newuser FAQ for ideas on spam trapping that
won't get you into trouble with Demon's abuse team.

-- 
Paul Terry

In article <vacetsAVVip5EAgp@musonix.com>,
  Paul Terry <paul@musonix.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <39a58c1a@news.server.worldonline.co.uk> slate wrote:
>
> >I've just upgraded from Outlook Express to Outlook 2000 (5). Now
when I try
> >to download my mail from demons POP3 servers, my password is not
recognised.
> Have you remembered that if you use a normal dialup password for POP3
> you have to be dialled into Demon in order to collect your mail?
>
> If dialled in via another ISP you need to set a special POP3 password
in
> order to collect demon email.

Ahh, not so. I already dial in through another ISP (Worldonline) and
have been collecting my Demon email through that connection for weeks
using Outlook Express. It is only since the upgrade to Outlook 2000
that it has stopped working. Nothing else has changed, and I can still
collect my Demon mail with Outlook Express, when I dial in through
Worldonline's servers.

Maybe this is just something that is more secure in Outlook 2000.
Should I try using the password that I use for Demon's Webmail service?

> I bet the owners (or potential future owners) of yourpants.demon.co.uk
> are just going to love you for pulling a stunt like that - take a look
> at Demon's AUP and see the newuser FAQ for ideas on spam trapping that
> won't get you into trouble with Demon's abuse team.

Have a sense of humour (I have been a Demon subscriber for about 6
years now).

Regards,
slate (at work)


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In article <8o5oaj$clr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> slate wrote:

>In article <vacetsAVVip5EAgp@musonix.com>,
>  Paul Terry <paul@musonix.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>> If dialled in via another ISP you need to set a special POP3 password
>in
>> order to collect demon email.

>Ahh, not so. 

Eh? I suggest you read Demon's POP3 FAQ:

 http://www.demon.net/info/helpdesk/demon_products/mail/index.shtml

Here is a quote from that document:

  A significant advantage of POP3 is that you can read your e-mail from
  anywhere on the Internet that you can run a POP3 client, without
  having to dial in to Demon ...

  To use this feature, you will need to set up a separate POP3 password.
  This must be done from your own Demon dial-up host, and you will not
  be able to use POP3 from elsewhere until you have set it up. 

From what you say below it sounds like you *have* been using a POP3
(i.e. Webmail) password in Outlook Express, but you haven't yet tried it
in Outlook.

>I already dial in through another ISP (Worldonline) and
>have been collecting my Demon email through that connection for weeks
>using Outlook Express. 

Then I think you must have been using a POP3 password. Demon have always
been clear that a dialup password cannot be used for this - it is too
risky, since the password has to be sent in plain text and the last
thing you would want is a plain text dialup password being sent across
the Internet.

>Should I try using the password that I use for Demon's Webmail service?

Yes. That *is* the POP3 password - the only one that will work for
remote access to your mail.

>> I bet the owners (or potential future owners) of yourpants.demon.co.uk
>> are just going to love you for pulling a stunt like that - take a look
>> at Demon's AUP and see the newuser FAQ for ideas on spam trapping that
>> won't get you into trouble with Demon's abuse team.

>Have a sense of humour 

Removing "yourpants" is far too weary a joke for it to be in the
slightest bit humorous. I think you are wise to abandon the idea.

-- 
Paul Terry