... Thank you all for your help with this problem. I tried all your suggestions, including checking the 'hosts' file and creating a completely new Location. Nothing has worked. It is just so completely weird. Anyway, the owner is going to call out a proper Apple technician to sort it out. If the owner is able to follow what the technician does I'll report back, just for the record...
> Incidentally, the reason for the slightly odd "once only" wording of the title is that they claim that if they reboot the suspect Mac, they can download their emails once, but not subsequently until they reboot. No, they were reporting it ... works fine, and was fooling them. So, forget about the "works once after a reboot" part of it. Sorry to confuse you! SteveT
... a friend who has two Macs on a network connected via ADSL to the internet. I should warn you in advance that I'm ...!). They've got a really weird problem on one of their machines (a G5... reason, their Mail program simply won't connect to their me2uweb email servers. Interestingly, they...>> also have an email account with BT Internet, and it will get and send emails ...
...dnZ2d@bt.com>, "Steve Thackery" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote: I'm trying to help out a friend who has two Macs on a network connected via ADSL to the internet. I should warn you in advance that I'm not a Mac user!). snipped for brevity In summary, one of the Macs on their...
... steps. Incidentally, the reason for the slightly odd "once only" wording of the title is that they claim that if they reboot the suspect Mac, they can download their emails once, but not subsequently until they reboot. This suggests ... or two, I must admit!) to find this: System Preferences | (Internet & Network) Sharing | Firewall This is on my Intel iMac running OS X ...
...'ll drive over to their place this weekend and try those four steps. Incidentally, the reason for the slightly odd "once only" wording of the title is that they claim that if they reboot the suspect Mac, they can download their emails once, but not subsequently until they reboot. This suggests something funny with Mail, but (and I've seen this ...
... a friend who has two Macs on a network connected via ADSL to the internet. I should warn you in advance that I'm ...user!). They've got a really weird problem on one of their machines (a G5... reason, their Mail program simply won't connect to their me2uweb email servers. Interestingly, they...also have an email account with BT Internet, and it will get and send emails on...
... a friend who has two Macs on a network connected via ADSL to the internet. I should warn you in advance that I'm ...a Mac user!). They've got a really weird problem on one of their machines (a ... reason, their Mail program simply won't connect to their me2uweb email servers. Interestingly, they also have an email account with BT Internet, and it will get and send emails on...
> Could the problem be name resolution? Check the /etc/hosts file on the misbehaving machine to see if someone's (misguidedly) hardwired some bogus IP addresses for their ISP in it. That's an interesting new lead. I've thought all along it's something to do with name resolution, but I have no idea how that is handled in Macs. I'll go over to their place tomorrow and see what it ...
> For starters, compare all the network settings on both Macs. The network settings are accessible via "system preferences" which is available under the pull down Apple menu. Thanks for that. I've done just what you say, and can confirm that both Macs have identical settings in that area. SteveT
