I can't get POP3 to pull from the email servers in a reliable way.
This evening I spent an hour messing around turning the POP3 proxy on and off, and trying to get my Thunderbird to connect. I'm not sure what I did, but somehow it started working, with the proxy on. It snagged a "5" level spam, sent me a note about that, and everything. All 4 email addresses can pull email. In my fumbling around, I put two of those 4 into the http://192.168.1.200/portal thing. But since all 4 worked, and only two were configured there, I figured that was for the prefetch feature, which I have disabled. I later deleted the entries from the portal and I think it prompted for a password, but still worked.
So then I go to several other machines on my network and try Thunderbird on those machines. No go. It won't connect the email servers, but will connect through the http proxy to the internet. I set the http proxy inside of Thunderbird (to match those in Firefox), but that didn't help.
Like I said, I fumbled through it and got it working on one machine, now I'm wondering what the heck? I didn't "DO" anything, and it started working on one machine.
Is there a list of things to do, and an order to do them in order to get it working? I have 4 machines. 3 of them have two emails and one of them has 4 emails, for a total of 10. I've got 5 users defined (admin, plus one each for family members). I saw "11 users" the other day, it looked like it was counting IP addresses AND named users, is that an issue? You can tell, I'm grasping at straws here. Ideas?
Thanks.
--Dale--
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