Re: imap4.blueyonder.co.uk and Apple Mail borken?

On 24/05/2009 18:55, in article 77tg15F1j1hmhU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Chris
Ridd" <chrisridd@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2009-05-24 17:45:14 +0100, Steve Folly <moderatednews@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

On 18/05/2009 16:32, in article 77ddc6F1gr39eU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Chris
Ridd" <chrisridd@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2009-05-18 15:47:04 +0100, Sara <saramerriman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

In article <seHPl.29802$OO7.5108@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Hans Sluiman <not@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Peter Hayes wrote:
Steve Folly wrote:
Hi,

Is anyone using Apple Mail to access their Virgin Media email via
imap4.blueyonder.co.uk?

I ask because I've been getting my email like this for about a year
now, but
it just stopped working a few days ago. Nothing has changed in my
configuration. (Still on 10.5.6, no updates were done in between it
working
and not working.)

VM has said there is nothing wrong with their servers, which I'm
inclined to
agree with since I created a new account in Entourage to read from the
same
email account and everything works fine.

I've tried deleting the account and recreating, but no luck. Short of
deleting *all* Mail preferences (which I'd rather not do!) I'm stuck
as to
what to do next.

Can anyone suggest anything?


Sorry to say I've no problems, used IMAP for ages and other than some
times when it's been slow or too much SPAM has got through. Using Mac OS
X mail fully updated.

Pete H

No problems here either.

Fine here too.

No problems here either. What does Mail.app's Connection Doctor say?
Click the "Show Detail" button and then "Check Again" if there are
problems to get loads of debug output. It helps debugging if you're
only checking one account.

To which IP address does imap4.blueyonder.co.uk resolve for you?

I get 62.254.26.203 at home, but at work I get 195.188.53.52. VM say it's
fine due to load balancing and redundancy. Fair enough.

From a VM address, imap4.blueyonder.co.uk resolves to 195.188.53.52.
Interestingly that 62.254.26.203 address belongs to
imap4-gw.blueyonder.co.uk. I get the same resolves from a non-VM
network too.

I'd want to work out why your DNS is resolving a bit strangely. Try
flushing your router's DNS cache? (eg reboot it)

Tried that. And connecting directly without a router also gives
62.254.26.203.

Hmmm... how odd... VM gives me 194.168.4.100 and 194.168.8.100 as primary
and secondary DNS servers respectively. The primary ones gives me 62..., the
secondary one gives me 195... for imap4.blueyonder.co.uk!

And, the primary server always returns a cache TTL of 0, which seems a bit
strange?


Which area are you in? I'm hanging off ...ubr16.haye.blueyonder.co.uk

The VM folks in the virginmedia.support.* groups might be able to
explain what these two machines are.

Yep - response pending!



--
Regards,
Steve

There's probably no god.
Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.

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