MWEB pop3 not accesible

[gerkot]

Good morning

Thanks for all the nice info here. Can someone please help? Got a novatel 3g card plugged into a pci - pcmcia card in my desktop and mweb email for my setup at home. Very often I can not access the pop3.mweb.co.za server to download email. (Even if I quit IE and only traffic is suppose to be between my desktop and pop3).

Cheers

 

[Tazz_Tux]

Call mweb ?

Good morning

Thanks for all the nice info here. Can someone please help? Got a novatel 3g card plugged into a pci - pcmcia card in my desktop and mweb email for my setup at home. Very often I can not access the pop3.mweb.co.za server to download email. (Even if I quit IE and only traffic is suppose to be between my desktop and pop3).

Cheers

 

[gerkot]

Can try but this problem is only present when i connect to net via 3G

 

[Tazz_Tux]

I have seen ISPs block traffic from Vodacom's 3G network...

Can try but this problem is only present when i connect to net via 3G

 

[vodacom3g]

gerkot, what is the error message you get?

Next time this happens, open up a DOS box and do a nslookup on the MWEB POP3 server and check if the URL resolves.

You might be (yet another) victum of the DNS problems....

 

[gerkot]

MWEB cannot help

Hi, spoke to mweb. They say its a Vodacom problem, probably DNS problem, why I can't connect to pop3.mweb or smtp.vodacom. Any ideas?

 

[ic]

Hi, spoke to mweb. They say its a Vodacom problem, probably DNS problem, why I can't connect to pop3.mweb or smtp.vodacom. Any ideas?

If it's a DNS problem, try using 196.2.50.70 instead of the hostname pop3.mweb.co.za, if that works consistently, then it is most likely a DNS issue...same goes for smtp.mweb.co.za - presumably it requires authentication when accessed from another subnet/ISP?

If smtp.vodacom.co.za is a problem, which APN are you using with Vodacom 3G? If the 'internetvpn' APN, then it appears there is a problem there, which Vodacom must now be working at resolving...