Pipex mail problems?

[chez]

Is anyone with Pipex xtreme ADSL?

Are you having problems with your mail?

My internet conncetivity is fine, but i cannot retrieve/send mail...looks like the mail servers are down, but the Pipex site reports no outages!

Thanks
Chez

[Flibb]

Using outlook no probs, and have used it just about all day

[JimNastics]

Everything for me as well... I take it that you've had it up and running before? The format goes like this:

Incoming: pop.dsl.pipex.com
Outgoing: smtp.dsl.pipex.com
Username: ******%dsl.pipex.com (note the % sign, not @)
Pass: whatever

[chez]

Well, it seems to be a DNS issue...contacted Pipex support who gave me the IP address of pop.dsl.pipex.com and I can ping it by IP, but not by name.

I manually entered the DNS servers into my router, but still no joy!

[chez]

It gets weirder...

All of a sudden, tonight, it starts working perfectly....!