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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / March 2004Configuring Eudora for Comcast
I'm helping a friend configure for a new Comcast cable-modem setup. 1. What are the settings for using Eudora with Comcast? Are they supporting POP, IMAP, or both? What is the smtp server? Authentication on smtp? Mail server? Any tricks in entering the username? From reading between the lines, I think the servers are: smtp.comcast.net mail.comcast.net 2. Are there any big issues with Comcast these days? I just replied to Bill who is having trouble sending mail to AOL. Any other issues? -- Sally  SignatureSally Shears (a.k.a. "Molly") sshears@theWorld.com -or- Sally@Shears.org http://theWorld.com/~sshears > I'm helping a friend configure for a new Comcast cable-modem setup. > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > -- Sally Mine is POP mail.comcast.net authenticate by password > 1. What are the settings for using Eudora with Comcast? Are they > supporting POP, IMAP, or both? What is the smtp server? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > smtp.comcast.net > mail.comcast.net Correct servers. No IMAP, just POP3. No tricks in the usernames. Remember to check "Allow authorization". > 2. Are there any big issues with Comcast these days? I just replied > to Bill who is having trouble sending mail to AOL. Any other issues? The POP3 servers have never been fast. My guess is that they have millions of users that have set their clients to check mail every minute, to satisfy their instant gratification cravings. Expect authorization and other errors often. The servers are not well run, so they do a lot of downtime. Over the past week, my Eudora log shows over 20 auth failures and dozens of "postoffice unavailable" type messages. Of course, many of the errors cause Eudora to throw out the saved passwords... About the only good thing to be said about Comcast's email systems is that they don't seem to have lost emails en-mass recently. IOW, Comcast email is good for receiving low-priority mailing list stuff, but not critical emails. Even Hotmail is more reliable. As for AOL-type issues... Comcast does little to nothing about virus infected zombie PCs on their network. This means that the only way for companies like AOL to deal with the spam flood is to block entire subnets... FWIW, - Dan. Signature- Psychoceramic Emeritus - South Jersey, USA, Earth > > 1. What are the settings for using Eudora with Comcast? Are they > > supporting POP, IMAP, or both? What is the smtp server? [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > FWIW, > - Dan. This is Bill, the orginator of this thread. I don't understand it, but all of a sudden the problem with AOL disappeared. Even before that though, I was able to send to the same AOL addresses using either Yahoo Mail or Apples Mail program (Mail 1 with OS X 10.1.5), which to me points to some hangup within Eudora. I don't think it could be a setting problem, since these were all AOL addresses that I have had in my Eudora address book for over a year, sending to them weekly with no problem. I have not changed any settings, nor have the AOL recipients. basic Eudora settings are smtp.comcast.net and mail.comcast.net The really strange thing is that no sooner did the AOL problem go away than I started having problems sending to a few of the comcast.net addresses I have also had in the same address book, but again, only with Eudora-Apple Mail and Yahoo Mail worked fine. If this keeps up I think I'll just have to give up on Eudora. It's making me crazy, and not being able to ask support a question, even by email, stinks. |
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