I can't  receive any mail due to this error.

How can I correct this problem?

Thanks, 

John

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:22:12 -0600

> I can't receive any mail due to this error.

["connection closed by foreign host"]

> How can I correct this problem?

The information thus far given
is approximately 0% of what would be needed
to even begin to diagnose the issue,
comparable to "I'm not feeling well"
as the only information given to a physician.

"Follow the setup instructions of your ISP" (sbcglobal?)
is about as far as I can suggest, comparable to
"take it easy and get some rest."

-- 

"John H Meyers" <jhmeyers@nomail.invalid> wrote in 
news:op.u6lw4ly6nn735j@miu.edu:

> On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:22:12 -0600
> 
>> I can't receive any mail due to this error.
> 
> ["connection closed by foreign host"]
> 
>> How can I correct this problem?
> 
> The information thus far given
> is approximately 0% of what would be needed
> to even begin to diagnose the issue,
> comparable to "I'm not feeling well"
> as the only information given to a physician.
> 
> "Follow the setup instructions of your ISP" (sbcglobal?)
> is about as far as I can suggest, comparable to
> "take it easy and get some rest."
> 
I'll add that my migration from an old computer running (sort of) Win XP 
Pro to a new one running Win 7 Pro has gone fairly smoothly.  One change 
I made by hand is hat I generated a new partition, and moved the Eudora 
data files to a subdirectory there.  Editing the path variable in the 
shortcut to Eudora then was all that was needed (I think).

Connection closed sounds like a connectivity problem, firewall, or 
something else <grimn>.


-- 
Best regards
Han 
email address is invalid

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:54:11 -0600, "John H Meyers"
<jhmeyers@nomail.invalid> wrote:

>On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:22:12 -0600
>
>> I can't receive any mail due to this error.
>
>["connection closed by foreign host"]
>
>> How can I correct this problem?
>
>The information thus far given
>is approximately 0% of what would be needed
>to even begin to diagnose the issue,
>comparable to "I'm not feeling well"
>as the only information given to a physician.
>
>"Follow the setup instructions of your ISP" (sbcglobal?)
>is about as far as I can suggest, comparable to
>"take it easy and get some rest."

Sorry for the brevity.

This has been a common problem for many releases of Eudora so I
thought I would hear from some of the people who had experienced the
same problem.

Under options I had setup:

mailserver IN--pop.att.yahoo.com

mailserver OUTGOING-smtp.att.yahoo.com

Everything under OPTIONS for:

getting started

checking mail

incoming mail

sending mail

is the same as on my XP machine.

Thanks for any help

John

On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:05:28 -0600:

> This has been a common problem for many releases of Eudora

If there were any basis in reality to any claim
that Eudora has for all these years not worked,
you should have years ago switched to something else.

> mailserver IN -- pop.att.yahoo.com
> mailserver OUTGOING - smtp.att.yahoo.com

> Everything under OPTIONS for:
> getting started
> checking mail
> incoming mail
> sending mail
> is the same as on my XP machine.

Very humorous -- "the same as"
will of course enable everyone who reads this,
provided they are psychics and can see into your XP machine,
to know what the rest of the settings are,
like "my X-rays look just like my brother's, doc" :)

Fortunately, the server names alone, plus your email address,
are enough for us to surmise that you are an "sbcglobal" customer
using the same ATT/Yahoo email outsourcing that all the
USA "Baby Bells" use, whose proper settings are well known.

"Secure Sockets when Receiving" - "Required, Alternate Port"
"Secure Sockets when Sending"   - "Required, Alternate Port"

User name: Most "Baby Bells" require specifying the full email address
(e.g. "myname@sbcglobal.net") as the user name,
although one of them (I don't recall which one) may be the default,
in case the domain name part is omitted -- the reason for this
seems evidently to be that all of these companies share the same servers=
,
and thus need to know to which company you belong -- to distinguish,
for example, "janesmith@bellsouth.net" from "janesmith@sbcglobal.net"

It is also necessary for the incoming and outgoing servers
in any one personality to have the same username/password combination,
which seems likely here to be so, given the related servers.

If it were known that when you re-try your "check mail"
then it works fine, and continues to do so for as long as
you keep Eudora running, then we would know something else
that would uniquely identify your situation, but once again,
our knowledge is limited to the posted minimal information.

So I might as well refer you to a note from one of the developers:

"In many cases, it is helpful to have a Eudora log
to troubleshoot a problem. Logs are particularly helpful
when troubleshooting problems related to sending or checking mail"

For instructions, see:
http://eudorabb.qualcomm.com/showthread.php?t=3D476

If you post a log, omit or replace by "xxxxxx" any pure "gibberish"
(which may actually represent your password, for example),
since all of the useful diagnostic information
is contained in plain and readily readable text.

-- =

On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:05:28 -0600...

> This has been a common problem for many releases of Eudora...
> so I thought I would hear from some of the people
> who had experienced the same problem.

Oh, I see what is meant -- "connection closed by foreign host"
happens to many people, so anyone to whom it has happened
might be able to tell you what was their problem,
and what fixed it for them?

Well, I understand that headaches are a common problem for many people.

If any of you out there have had headaches,
perhaps you can tell me what your condition was,
and what cured it for you -- then I will not need
to consult a doctor myself, nor have to fill out a patient history
or get any diagnostic tests that they always first want everyone to take :)

I'm also willing to try anything, so just send me your left-over pills,
and I'll swallow them all :)

-- 

On 16 Jan 2010 12:46:35 GMT, Han <nobody@nospam.not> declaimed the
following in comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows:


> Connection closed sounds like a connectivity problem, firewall, or 
> something else <grimn>.

	Note the key words "by foreign host" -- this means the target
machine one is connecting to did not like one's credentials and hung-up
(figuratively speaking).

	Reasons could be: wrong server host address name; wrong port on
correct server; wrong protocol [WRT security encryption]; incorrect user
name or password (for POP3).
-- 
	Wulfraed	 Dennis Lee Bieber		 KD6MOG
	wlfraed@ix.netcom.com	HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

In article <dl12l5dec8us53dp64lac5lghjqmsjms0g@4ax.com>, johnrn@sbcglobal.net says...
>
> I can't  receive any mail due to this error.
> How can I correct this problem?

  Try:
  Checking mail for ATTBI/Comcast
  http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2462hq.html

  Quit Error when Checking AT&T
  http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2465hq.html
  --
  Over and Out
  Daniel Jacobson