I am having a problem with receiving my incoming mail (POP3) from my ISP on my Wingate server (Windows 98).
The Outlook Express Account is configured to get incoming mail from the ISP's server (mail.server.com), to send outbound mail via the same server, and has anaccount name of 'my.mail'.
Whenever I shut the system down, and subsequently restart, the information in the Outlook Express accounts has changed - the incoming mail server now says 'localhost', the outbound mail server is changed, and the account name is changed from 'my.mail' to 'my.mail/mail.server.com' ! This then refuses to connect properly. Why is this happening?
I have to say I have looked through the help text regarding setting up e-mail, and I am very confused! I have no idea whether I have set things up correctly, but it does seem to work when I return Outlook Express to my original configuration. All I want to do is connect my network of PCs at home to the Internet via Broadband (USB), and allow them all to access e-mail (including the server) on my ISP's POP3 server.
SOLVED - 27 October 2003
I have finally tracked the problem down! The resetting of the POP3 incoming mail server is being done by my anti-virus software (Trend PC-cillin) which is performing a real-time scan of e-mail. In order to do this, it changes the incoming mail-server to localhost, and the account details (as above) to account name/mail server.
Unfortunately this does NOT appear to be compatible WinGate - as documented in Trend Micro's knowledgebase article 14809! (Unless someone else knows better). See:
http://kb.trendmicro.com/solutions/solutionDetail.asp?solutionID=14809