How to connect to bigpond?

[Jeff Bailes]

On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 10:41 +1030, SMOK wrote:
> Hi Andre,
>  
> I did as you explained.
> I put POP, mail.bigpond.com and my use name into Evolution.
> Then I tried send/receive and I got the following error:
> "Could not connect to mail.bigpond.com: No route to host"
> Any idea what is wrong?
>  
> One thing is funny though.
> I could not find a place to type-in my password into Evolution?
> Do I need to provide any passwords?
> On Microsoft Outlook Express I have to provide password to my account.
>  
> ...by the way, I can't send/receive email on Windows if I have this
> magic "Telstra meter" inactive, which (as I now understand) is an
> equivalent to "bpalogin" (is that correct?).
>  
> Coming back to bpalogin.
> I have downloaded a file called "bpalogin_2.0.2-6ubuntu1_i386.deb".
> Aparently it must have been an installation program.
> Ubuntu recognized it on my windows desktop and installed it.
> It is funny though that bpalogin disappeared after that without any
> trace.
> And of course, it DIDN'T ask me for any passwords either.
> Is it meant to be like that.
> I wouldn't expect that Ubuntu automatically searches my Windows
> installation and magically figures-out any password.

You need to set you Username and password through a text file, if you
follow the steps in this forum topic it will hopefully work fine:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=176000&highlight=bpalogin

	Jeff