Help--Trouble With Message Center Account Registration

[+ Gar1eth]

I apologize if this is the wrong place to post this--but I am planning on getting rid of my AOL account. I tried to register with my new non-AOL Account. The e-mail confirmation was a page full of gobbledy gook. I will paste part of it below. When I tried to e-mail Daddy from that address, I received a mailer daemon response that said I had a permanent failure and "sorry, relaying denied from your location" and then it listed an IP address. I know it was an IP address because it was a string of numbers--although I don't know exactly what an IP address is other than some type of computer or network identification.

 

Here is part of the Gobbledygook-- (it filled an entire page)

 

VGhpcyBlbWFpbCBpcyBzZW50IGJ5IERDRm9ydW0gRW1haWwgcmV0cmlldmFsIHN5c3RlbSBhdA0K

 

DQpodHRwOi8vbTRtLm1lc3NhZ2UtZm9ydW0ubmV0L2RjYm9hcmQucGhwDQoNCklmIHlvdSBoYXZl

 

 

Thanks,

 

gareth

[+ deej]

This is actually two distinctly different problems.

 

The gobbledy-gook is a known problem with the message center software and some e-mail clients. (It happens to me with Outlook.) Daddy has been working on a fix, and at least one of his efforts this evening seemed to have worked. Apparently, it broke email for everyone else because he reverted it.

 

I believe it's a bug in Outlook 2003 because all other mail programs seem to display the same messages just fine. At least that's what it *seems* like based on observations so far.

 

The relay problem is most likely a setup issue in your e-mail client and settings required by your outgoing SMTP server.

[+ Gar1eth]

>This is actually two distinctly different problems.

>

>The gobbledy-gook is a known problem with the message center

>software and some e-mail clients. (It happens to me with

>Outlook.) Daddy has been working on a fix, and at least one of

>his efforts this evening seemed to have worked. Apparently, it

>broke email for everyone else because he reverted it.

>

>I believe it's a bug in Outlook 2003 because all other mail

>programs seem to display the same messages just fine. At least

>that's what it *seems* like based on observations so far.

>

>The relay problem is most likely a setup issue in your e-mail

>client and settings required by your outgoing SMTP server.

 

 

I dont use Outlook--is there a way for me to fix either of these problems?

 

Thanks,

 

G

[+ deej]

>I dont use Outlook--is there a way for me to fix either of

>these problems?

 

Should I make a wild guess what you DO use? ;-) This is the first report I've seen of the gobbledy-gook happening with another email program.

 

You can certainly solve the relay problem by following the SMTP configuration instructions from your ISP.

[Guy Fawkes]

Gar1eth,

 

That's the problem that I've been working on this weekend. Do me a favor and send me email to mailto:[email protected] from your AOL account so that I can work with you to solve the problem.

[Guy Fawkes]

Thank-you to Gar1eth

 

We've been able to test the email fix and are happy to announce that the Gobbledygook problem appears to have been solved.

 

So if you've been having a problem getting a new password (there is about a half dozen of you). Try it now, you'll probably have more success.

 

Regards, Daddy

[+ Gar1eth]

>Thank-you to Gar1eth

>

>We've been able to test the email fix and are happy to

>announce that the Gobbledygook problem appears to have been

>solved.

>

>So if you've been having a problem getting a new password

>(there is about a half dozen of you). Try it now, you'll

>probably have more success.

>

>Regards, Daddy

 

 

Wow--a personal thanks from Daddy--I never thought I'd receive such an encomium--ok I may be reading too much into this for it to be an encomium.

 

Gman :+

 

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/encomium

[flguy]

Hey Deej, I thought you said Daddy NEVER reads the forum? Now I am confused because he has responded to this thread.

[+ deej]

No, I never said that.