a pop3 problem with Dreammail

Right now I am using my mobile hot spot on my cell phone to connect my laptop to the internet. A junction box for Frontier Commutations got mowed down by a DUI so no primary internet or house phone.

Anyways I am getting a pop3 service connection error message, (see attachment). I can't connect to any of my 3 Email box's via Dream mail. I can get into all 3 Email accounts via FireFox with no problems. I also tried Thunderbird Email client, that works just fine. Dream mail was working on my mobile wifi hotspot until yesterday. I have completely whipped Dream mail and all of it's data files from the hard drive and reinstalled Dream Mail new and resetup the 3 email box's and I still get the same error message. I have tried everything that I know and no luck.

Steve

----------------error message-------------
Can not connect to pop3.live.com. Please check POP3 Server setting (eg: Server address and SSL). Some servers does not need to SSL security transmission, if you check the SSL, may cause this problem.

Ping the pop 3 that will give you the IP enter that instead of the name see if it's a DNS error

It has been a long, long time since I had to ping a server. I know how to do the ping but I don't remember how to find the IP address to ping. Dreammail states that it doesn't get a response from ether Gmail or MSN and times out. I can get into Gmail and MSN email box's via Firefox without any problems. Thunderbird Email client works great and reads both Gmail and MSN just find.

samuria said:

Ping the pop 3 that will give you the IP enter that instead of the name see if it's a DNS error

You ping pop3.live.com and you should get a reply from and the IP

Primary internet connection is backup and working 100%

Ping pop3 reply from Google mail via Mobile Hot Spot: no response from pop3 time out.

Ping pop3 reply from Google mail via primary internet connection
pinging mail.netgear.com [209.249.181.6 with 32 bytes of data:
request time out.
request time out.
request time out.

Ping statistics for 209.249.181.6:
Packets sent = 4, Receive = 0, lost = 4 <100% loss>.

DreamMail is 100% working on Gmail and MSN accounts now on the primary internet link.

Steve

samuria said:

You ping pop3.live.com and you should get a reply from and the IP

Yes DreamMail has always worked just fine on the primary internet ISP. In the past when I used the hotspot DreamMail worked just fine. And the 1st few times this time when I used the hotspot DreamMail worked just fine. Then 1 day last week, BAM DreamMail stopped logging into the mail servers. Now to reset the password for DreamMail to work with Gmail. I have to go into a sub menu of Gmail setup, dump the old 16 digit number that Gmail generates and make a new one, then past it into the password box in DreamMail. MSN is a lot easer to change the password.

Townsbg has just replied with: Did it work before switching over to the hotspot? If so then the port might be blocked by the carrier.