Intermitent connection problem to ONLY ONE of many email servers...HELP

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phil6666

My problem seems to be a time-out issue for my specific email
addresses. (Maybe during password authentication???)

Using XP Home Edition with all of the current updates....

I have multiple email addresses and a number of these addresses
connecting to one server (one domain???) in particular
(mail.adelphia.net) have been giving me regular (but not constant)
time-out errors.

The other email addresses connecting to other servers (domain, if
that's the correct way to describe it ???) connect quickly and almost
never time out. (IE: pop.gmail.com)


I downloaded PingPlotter....repeated testing of this email server
(mail.adelphia.net) shows no problem with any hops.


Is there a way to ping a specific email address or account?????
 
My problem seems to be a time-out issue for my specific email
addresses. (Maybe during password authentication???)

Using XP Home Edition with all of the current updates....

I have multiple email addresses and a number of these addresses
connecting to one server (one domain???) in particular
(mail.adelphia.net) have been giving me regular (but not constant)
time-out errors.

The other email addresses connecting to other servers (domain, if
that's the correct way to describe it ???) connect quickly and almost
never time out. (IE: pop.gmail.com)


I downloaded PingPlotter....repeated testing of this email server
(mail.adelphia.net) shows no problem with any hops.


Is there a way to ping a specific email address or account?????
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Phil,

If you've verified the basic network connection with this email server
(mail.adelphia.net), and it's solid (and used pop.gmail.com as a baseline), then
there is probably a problem with the server itself. That may be an issue for
the owners of the server to address. Have you reported this to Adelphia?
 
Everything appears fine on my end.

I was hoping for some add'l proof that it might be Adelphia....they
are almost always into total denial that they might have a
problem....last I asked, they told me to get ready to reformat my
HD!!!
 
Everything appears fine on my end.

I was hoping for some add'l proof that it might be Adelphia....they
are almost always into total denial that they might have a
problem....last I asked, they told me to get ready to reformat my
HD!!!
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Ouch. Typical ISP.

Any chance that you could borrow a computer? Reformat it, and see if the
problems occur on a second computer, and at the same time as on this computer?

It's vaguely possible that your problem could be related to software running on
your computer. Can you restart the computer, and run it reading only email, and
only from mail.adelphia.net, until the problem reoccurs? Maybe run Autoruns and
Process Explorer, to know what is running on your computer?
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/04/watching-what-your-computer-is-doing.html>
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