fetchmail from verizon

[rus20376 at infolaunch.com]

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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:03:36 -0500
> From: "dan moylan" <jdm at moylan.info>
> Subject: fetchmail from verizon
> To: "boston linux and unix (blu)" <discuss at blu.org>
> Message-ID: <0J0C00COSCHJSNC6 at vms042.mailsrvcs.net>
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> when i try to collect mail from verizon.net, fetchmail times
> out.  do i need some special authentication?  .fetchmailrc
> looks like this:
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> # fchmai.ver
> # 060604
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>   poll verizon.net      protocol pop3
>     user "jdm34"        with pass "......."    is "moylan"  here
>     user "memoylan"     with pass "......."    is "emoylan" here
>   smtp localhost

I was playing around with nslookup
I did a set type=mx
I couldn't find anything to connect to on verizon.net myself.
I am a verizon DSL subscriber and have been unable to connect to 
incoming.verizon.net for POP service for awhile now.
I can still check my mail via verizon's webmail page 
netmail.verizon.net, however.
I haven't bothered complaining as contacting verizon help is an 
excercise in frustration. I'd likely spend 3 hours on the phone wih a 
succession of people asking me if my PC is plugged in. Oh, and their 
help pages still list incoming.verizon.net as the correct POP server.
http://netservices.verizon.net/portal/site/msa/index.jsp?case=c2372
Is anyone else having this problem? Is it just me being blocked!?!? =-O
Interestingly, and quite fortunately, I have not had a problem with 
their SMTP server outgoing.verizon.net.


P.S. Just as I was sending this through Thunderbird I got an error 
saying I could not connect to outgoing.verizon.net !! I sent this 
through a webmail account instead. What is up with verizon!?!?