Email client for older machines? (need help)

[chris]

>My ISP has just "upgraded" their email server to be completely incompatible
>with my client - basically the POP server cannot not be determined from
>the POP account name anymore, and since my ancient client "figures out"
>the server from the account name, it cannot connect.

I assume you already tried doing username at domain@pop.server and that 
failed (it actually works on some clients, any that parse from the back 
to the front it will work on).

The other thing to try is, many of the ISPs that require this kind of 
setup (where the username is really username at domain) will accept an 
alternate character in place of the @ sign. Commonly it is % but has also 
been known to work with / or . or ? or any number of other symbols. Try 
replacing the first @ (the one on the username pair) with some other 
symbol and see if it accepts it.

-chris
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