Topic: More advice - please.

[tim]

Today, cannot send an e-mail. Not even to myself!!

Ideas, please??

[Hyacinth]

someone who knows will answer Tim. Wonder if you can receive an email? I'm testing now..

Sent. I'll come back if I get an 'undeliverable' notification....

[tim]

Well there's a clever young Lady - NO!!

[Hyacinth]

OK, for the puter whizzkids....I sent a test mail & Tim hasn't received it and I've not had it returned either.

Hope this helps you in your diagnosis?

[tim]

I think they are still at the Pub?

[jaggythistle]

  I know I have been sent one Tim and it has not arrived either
  Pub  :o :o get a better measure at home  ;D and carpets easier
  on the knees when it's time to turn in  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)

[redimp]

  I know I have been sent one Tim and it has not arrived either
  Pub  :o :o get a better measure at home  ;D and carpets easier
  on the knees when it's time to turn in  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)

Now I know it's your wedding anniversary Jags but there is no need for that sort of talk :o

Sorry tim, can't help with your email probs either ???

[tim]

We breathe again - back on line this am with a huge backlog.

So why??

Thanks for you thoughts. = Tim

[woppa30]

"Why?" you ask Tim,
Basically your email sits on a mail server called, for example "pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk" Thats mine anyway...
If your broadband goes down your computer can't do anything on the web.
If the mailserver goes down (unlikely) you can't retrieve your email.
Whats called the DNS servers are playing up. When your computer looks for "pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk" it askes a DNS server where it is. That translates it to a number, 217.12.10.100 in this case and off it goes to get your email. If the DSN servers are down, which are probably provided by your ISP, you will struggle to find certain sites on the interent. I used tio have this problem with NTL a lot so installed a DNS server on my own PC so I wouldn't have to rely on the NTL ones.
Hope this cl;arifies the situation. If I have problems at home a reboot of the modem and router solves 90% of the problems. Moving the wife from the computer solves the other 10% :-)

[tim]

Silly me - forgot to try a reboot!

But all's well now.

[Nelson]

The first suggestion of any IT helpdesk: "Have you tried turning it off and back on again?"

[tim]

That's really what I meant - but one get's so frustrated with the stupid thing that one forgets the obvious!!

[kenkew]

No big problem Tim, it's just a hic-up... until you forget to use the loo paper, ...then the problem is a real one!