Can’t Access E-Mail using Outlook or MacMail (Error Code 3170)
Can’t Access E-Mail using Outlook or Mac Mail (Error Code 3170) Starting on 10/2/19, I’ve started getting the following error message: “Outlook cannot find the server. Verify the server information is entered correctly in the Account Settings, and that your DNS settings in the Network pane of System Preferences are correct.” I made no changes to my Outlook e-mail client; this just started happening out of the blue. Then as a test, I attempted to download my e-mail via Mac Mail. This also failed to connect, just got a spinning wheel that forced me to use a “force-quit” to get out of the Mail app. I updated my Cox password and also tried resetting the modem. It should be noted that I’m able to access my Web Mail via Cox’s main website; no problems there. Because I cannot access my e-mail using two separate e-mail clients, I strongly believe that the problem is with Cox. My system details: Outlook for Mac 2011 (14.7.2) Mac Mini running Sierra 10.12.6 Although I’d made no changes to either e-mail client, I reviewed the Port settings for both servers (993 and 465) to make sure they were correct. The “Use SSL to connect (recommended)” check boxes are checked for both Incoming and Outgoing. For Authentication I have “Use Incoming Server Info” applied (I also tried “User Name and Password” to no effect). I’ve had issues with my Cox e-mail several times in the past, so I’m quite familiar with how to set up my e-mail clients with the correct information. I would greatly appreciate any and all assistance, advice, help! Thanking in advance...Solved6.8KViews0likes18CommentsIntermittent Email send/receive failures with POP3 - Usual issue every few months - PLEASE FIX
For the past couple weeks now, I've been experiencing the infamous & intermittent email send/receive failures, like many other customers in these forums have been reporting. My system specs: Windows 10 Pro x64, version 1809, all updates installed MS Windows Defender active, no other security packages MS Office Outlook 2007 Cox Internet Preferred package My issues: For the past couple weeks, my various Cox email accounts have intermittent problems sending or receiving emails through Outlook 2007. When receiving emails, I'll get the Outlook pop-up error window stating the infamous 'Enter Network Password'. This issue happens consistently, all day longwith all my Cox email accounts...then emails will suddenly work again temporarily...then the issue reappears, rinse & repeat...it's an ongoing cycle of working/not working throughout the day for the past couple weeks now. I don't bother calling Support about this because they usually blame Outlook and do nothing about it. It's not an Outlook problem...or a Windows Defender problem, or a security setting problem. Everything works great, when it works...then this sudden issue pops once or twice a year, as so many other customers have been reporting. And as mentioned by other customers, Cox somewhat acknowledges that they know about this problem with email and it's been kicked upstairs for a harder look. In the past, I've reset my Outlook settings for the Cox emails, tried different settings and ports according to the Cox email support docs, and even deleted my Cox email account profiles within Outlook and recreated them (in case they were corrupted). Nothing has worked. This happens regularly, so please Cox...don't ask the usual questions about using Webmail, trying another computer, etc. We know, and you know, this has been a persistent, recurring issue with Cox email accounts for many years and these suggestions don't work or fix anything. Usually, Cox Support hems & haws and says they're working on it...or they wrongly blame Outlook...and nothing gets resolved. Eventually, somewhere in the deep basement of Cox, some tech support genius who lives down there, does something that magically fixes the issue. I pay a lot of money every month and expect working email. Please fix this email issues ASAP. Thank you.6.2KViews2likes14CommentsRejected messages
It appears the new spam filtering service Cox is using (cloudfilter.net) is blocking a lot of valid mail. I would like to know where our individual portals and addressbooks are that we can configure our own whitelists and to be able to see what messages are being rejected. It is one thing to be identify a message as spam, and another thing entirely to reject them without notification. I have mail senders from a good number of places and since my mail volume has dropped by over 75%, it is quite safe to assume the spam aggressiveness thresholds are set quite high as well as are the bulk sender identifiers and anti-spoofing features. While you claim to not whitelist senders, you do need to provide your users the ability to do so. No doing so means you are censoring email Also, it is poor form to put a like to review changes and then have it error out. http://postmaster.cox.net/confluence/display/postmaster/Error+Codes If you are going to implement such a service you should become a lot more responsive with corrective actions. I am now on my second day waiting for an answer on my ticket with Tier 2, and third day with the actual issue at large.5.7KViews0likes7CommentsWhat does it take for Cox to act on a Ticket submitted 6 weeks ago re emails going to spam
I'm ready to move to a new email provider if Cox doesn't get their act together. Cox doesn't allow customers to whitelist email addresses they want to receive mail from, you have to submit a ticket. I submitted a ticket April 12 and followed up 3-4 times and all I hear is that there's a backlog. They don't seem to have a backlog when it comes to increasing my bill. So I have legitimate emails from Google, Youtube, HBO, my gas company, my own city government, Netflix, Godaddy, numerous other emails I signed up to receive, and most importantly, work-related emails that consistently go to spam. Still no resolution. This is terrible customer service.4KViews1like9CommentsEmail problem - Deleted emails in webmail keep coming back
This has been going on since you took away the old "Classic" format and forced me to use the new webmail format. Whether I delete mail or mark as spam and click that button, all my emails return to inbox. I had to do this process 2-4 times before they will actually stay away.This is ridiculous how long it takes to try and delete email. I have had nothing but problems since you changed things. Please fix this problem! ... or reinstate the choice of "Classic" format back to our email.4KViews0likes5CommentsCox SPAM Filters
I enabled the Cox SPAM filters back when the option became available over a decade ago. Then, starting in Jun 2018 my inbox began to get flooded with SPAM daily. I have reported hundreds of SPAM messages to Cox with no let down in the amount of SPAM messages. All the SPAM has nonsensical text in their bodies. Cox used to block this but looks like they have stopped doing it. My attempts to work this through Support has gone nowhere. I go from getting less than five spam emails over ten years to over 400 since June. I guess Cox has turned off SPAM filtering.This is extremely frustrating. Anyone have a good suggestion as to how to stop the avalanche of SPAM? Thanks!2.5KViews0likes5CommentsLast 3 years intermittently getting AUP#CXSNDR error on outgoing e-mails - now constant.
Occasionally I would get this error, but it would pretty much only pop up when trying to save a copy of the e-mail in the Sent folder. At first I figured it was just a weird permissions issue, or maybe even possibly when sending to specific servers and there was some weird glitches going on between the different servers, but now it's a constant thing. I'm even getting this when trying to send e-mails to my father and grandfather, who are both on the cox.net domain - personal accounts that were given out when Cox didn't determine that having to give e-mail addresses to their customers was too "burdensome" or "costly". In looking at the codes on your page with them https://www.cox.com/residential/support/email-error-codes.html I don't see one that has both AUP & #CXSNDR, but from my powers of reading and deduction it seems it's a mishmash of: AUP - which is Email sending blocked due to suspicious account activity on primary Cox account. To secure your account, please reset all Cox account passwords at cox.com/password. Contact Cox at cox.com/chat to remove block and reference error code AUP#CXMJ. The fix: Reset your password at www.cox.com/password or visit www.cox.com to sign in to your primary Cox account and go to the My Profile page. Then, contact Cox at www.cox.com/chat to remove the block referenced by error code AUP#CXMJ. CXSNDR - There was a problem with the sender's domain. The fix: Your email failed authentication checks against your sending domain's SPF, DomainKeys, or DKIM policy. So I'm not sure what to do here. When this initial problem came up about 3 years ago, I e-mailed Cox tech support, had a little back & forth with them (they seemed utterly confused), then I quit getting responses from them regarding this, even when I initiate a new support e-mail. I'm guessing that along with free e-mail addresses to your customers, you've determined that trained tech support is too "costly" and "burdensome" as well. Or who the hell knows, maybe just having tech support at all is too "costly" and "burdensome". Who the hell do I talk to to get this fixed? Since I'm forced to be reduced to guessing what's going on here since it would appear that Cox's "key" for the different codes is obviously woefully incomplete, I'm guessing that my account has been flagged for "sending spam" (AUP), which then causes the secondary error (CXSNDR); which is simply baffling as the only things I really send out from this e-mail address are historical e-mails to my father, grandfather and a few others as well as sending links about news or other things of that nature. The only other stuff I get is the few newsletters I subscribe to and then of course the "confirmation" e-mails when I need to start a new account somewhere. Can someone (presumably in tech support - preferably even someone that's trained/knowledgeable) help me figure out what the hell is going on here and help me rectify it? I realize that since Cox has determined that customers having Cox.net e-mail addresses is too burdensome and costly, it's "better" for the company to drive off everyone still using those e-mail addresses so they can save money (while driving the price for services up - naturally), but I'm not about to change an e-mail address I've had for two and a half decades. Or is competent tech support something you have to pay extra for these days with your "Complete Care" package? You've already made it elusive as hell to find an e-mail address to open up a new dialog with tech support, so it honestly wouldn't surprise me. This happens with Apple Mail (iOS & MacOS), Thunderbird (on both Linux & MacOS), Cox's webmail in an Internet browser (tried on 4 different browsers in various states of configuration), This needs to be fixed, balls in your court Cox. Also since I'm dropping valid complaints about the erosion of service and support from Cox, there's also the giant problem with my inability to send an e-mail when connected to my VPN. The last administrations acts against Net Neutrality should have sufficiently scared the *** out of anyone who valued their privacy (hence the drastic uptick of VPN providers in the last 5 years), but it would appear that Cox is always one step ahead when it comes to ruining any semblance of privacy one might have enjoyed with them blocking connections to VPN providers should one need to send an e-mail. Again - this is something I've brought to the attention of tech supportmultiple times and they've simply sat there in silence with a presumably quizzical look on their face. They had no god damned idea what a VPN was. Whether that's due to insufficient training on Cox's end or simply a "business tactic" to get people to pony up EXTRA for basic tech support I'm not sure; I wouldn't be surprised by either frankly, but I'd put my money on the latter. These aren't unreasonable requests. Just so we're clear, I need to: Be able to send email Be able to send email when connected to my VPN. That simple guys. It's really that simple.1.9KViews0likes4CommentsMessage to <3@2031342> was automatically rejected: spam
I received this bounce-back from the Mail Delivery Subsystem: Your message to<3@2031342> was automatically rejected: spam Who is <3@2031342>? Certainly not someone i communicate with. I've not seen that format for addresses before. And the message was bcc'd to 2 of my students and cc'd to my co-prof. Why was it screened as spam?1.9KViews0likes4CommentsClicking on the Webmail links on the Cox home page keeps looping and never loads.
The link first takes you tohttps://myemail.cox.net/appsuite/,then it loops to this link:https://idm.east.cox.net/affwebservices/public/saml2sso?SAMLRequest=,then it loops back to the first link. It repeats this cycle over & over. Tried this in Chrome and FIrefox web browsers, no ad blocker running or popup being blocked. Tried on multiple days. Tried on two different Windows 10 computers. Don't think the issue is me. Does these links no longer work or is the webmail access down?1.6KViews0likes1Comment