I got a Nicnames (it pains me to utter that word right now) mailbox so that I can get around their mail bounce problem that I’m having with them right now.

Also got iTunes 7 working and the Microsoft Installer Cleanup Utility had nothing to do with it. Seems that the problem was squarely with Apple. iTunes uses Quicktime for playing music and was working fine last week until I tried to install iTunes 7. I received the ‘not able to update reg key due to access rights’ message (or something similar) when it failed to install Quicktime 7, which is the first part of the iTunes 7 install. 

With the Nicnames mailbox, no routing is required and the domain email that you get is left on their email servers.

In Outlook it’s just another account to setup and retrieve email from, though it’ll be a couple of days before the Nicnames settings are fully bedded down - read propagated around the internet. Then I should get email reliably. Hah.

On the Treo I tried the following settings: 

Account Name=what ever you want, but something that will signify that it’s the Nicnames or domain email account, Mail Service=’Other’, Protocol=POP, Username=full domain email address ie john@smith.com, Password=password used to access the domain mailbox (same as set in Outlook), Email Address=full domain email address ie john@smith.com, Incoming Mail Server=’pop.iomartmail.com’, Outgoing Mail Server=’smtp.iomartmail.com’, Use authentication (ESMTP)was checked which populated the username and password.

And that did work, both receiving and sending email.

Quote of the day

‘If you believe everything you read, better not read’ Japanese proverb

The support person at Nicnames/Easyspace didn’t understand log files so he removed routing (duh) which auto generated an email to my BT email address confirming that the routing had been deleted. Suppose that’s what he thought a log was. How much confusion does that person create.

Believe it or not there is a way forward. Get a Nicnames mailbox. All of my domain email sits on their mail servers and can be accessed by Outlook and the Treo. I get a username and password for accessing their email servers which I can setup on Outlook as another account and I think I know how to do the setup on the Treo.