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My mail is on the Plesk server. Since you restarted the Plesk server, I'm able to receive popmail from webmail.<mydomain>.

However, I thought I'd try mail.<mydomain> as well. Sure enough, it works also. So, I guess I'll keep it as mail.<mydomain>.

Thanks,
Rick

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Well, the subject says it all. For the last two days or so, I have been unable to use my email client to receive mail from webmail.pcmdsolutions.com. I CAN get my mail through the web by going to webmail.pcmdsolutions.com. Trying to get it through popmail however is suddenly not working. When I try to get it with my email client I get the following error:

Could not connect to host webmail.pcmdsolutions.com

Nothing has changed in the setup of the account in my email client. The username & password are correct. The port number is still 110.

Anyone have any ideas??

Rick

Something interesting that I noticed.  I was unable to access my website earlier today.  I pinged freepgs.com and did not recieve any replies.  Later on I pinged it again and received replies from 127.0.0.1 aka localhost.  I checked my hosts file and its unaltered.  Any ideas of why this is happening?

Interesting. When I do a "dig freepgs.com", I get the following:

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> freepgs.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5284
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;freepgs.com.                   IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
freepgs.com.            3445    IN      A       127.0.0.1

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
freepgs.com.            3445    IN      NS      ns3.secureserver.net.
freepgs.com.            3445    IN      NS      ns4.secureserver.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns3.secureserver.net.   705     IN      A       64.202.165.10
ns4.secureserver.net.   705     IN      A       64.202.167.92

;; Query time: 28 msec
;; SERVER: 141.155.0.68#53(141.155.0.68)
;; WHEN: Sat Dec 10 09:15:36 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 129

also showing an IP of 127.0.0.1

Rick

Not long after posting the above message, I found that the change had finally propagated to my ISP's DNS servers.

So, everything is now working as it should.

Rick

OK...

I changed my domain to point to the freepgs.com nameservers (NS1.LVCS.NET, NS2.LVCS.NET & NS01.BACKUPDNS.COM). If I do a whois on my domain, it shows the proper nameservers. I contacted the admin about the change and received a message back saying that, "The domain has been added back to our nameservers."

Sure enough, if I run the following command, "dig @ns1.lvcs.net pcmdsolutions.com" I can see that everything appears as it should. However, if I do the following, "dig pcmdsolutions.com" I get the following:

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;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pcmdsolutions.com.             IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
pcmdsolutions.com.      3602    IN      A       216.69.169.20

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
pcmdsolutions.com.      1046    IN      NS      ns.pcmdsolutions.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns.pcmdsolutions.com.   1046    IN      A       216.69.169.20

Obviously, this dig is getting the info from my ISP's DNS server. Pointing my browser to my domain shows me the site which is on Plesk.

My question is, do I need to do anything else? Or, is it simply a matter of waiting for the nameserver change to propagate to my ISP's DNS server?

Yesterday (10/31), I was able to get my email working on the Plesk server. I was able to get my mail through webmail (accessing webmail.mydomain) as well as through popmail.

Today, I am still able to access webmail but, suddenly, I'm unable to get it through popmail. When I try to get it through my email client, I get the following message:

     Error while Fetching Mail.
     Could not connect to webmail.pcmdsolutions.com: Connection refused.

Does this mean the popmail server is down?

Rick