IMAP Error Messages

[Lisa]

Hi there...I'm trying to set-up OE for IMAP. I have double-checked the settings, and everything looks right. I keep getting a message that username or password is incorrect. I went back and copy/pasted directly from the set-up page. Still no go.

I found the tutorial for POP, but not for IMAP. I'm just not seeing where I made the error. I do some work with a company that uses IMAP and I had to change the port to 26 for that account...so I tried that, also, for mine.

Is Eudora better equiped to handle IMAP?

The error message ends with this:

Protocol: IMAP
Port: 143
Secure(SSL): 0
Code: 800ccc03

Does that code mean anything? Thank you! Lisa

[Matt]

Setting up IMAP would be identical to setting up a POP3 account, the only difference is that you select IMAP instead of POP3 at setup time.

I keep getting a message that username or password is incorrect

You'd be surprised at how often that is true.

copy/pasted directly from the set-up page

The only setup page I know of does not list a password for copy and paste. Can you configure a POP3 account successfully for this address?

[classicsm]

Forgot to ask...I also tried to do the automatic set-up and I get a long page of codes that starts with this: REGEDIT4

...but I don't see a new account in OE, and it didn't ask me to answer any questions, like the pop-ups warned me about. Any ideas as to what I did wrong there? Thanks! I'll try to set-up a pop account.

Great smilie selection!

[classicsm]

Haha...Actually i wouldn't be surprised! Maybe I wrote my password down wrong. I'm going to change it and then try again fresh.

[Matt]

I'd probably stay away from the auto configure, maybe I am just paranoid. There are so many variants on desktop/laptop computers that the scripts to auto-configure emails won't work for every one.

You are better off setting it up manually, that way you know everything has been entered correctly.