Dear Wayne. Many thanks for your reply.
I tried every combination of ports I can think of, as well as 995 and it still times out. The Postie settings actually recommends 110 for POP and using 110 in Outlook works.
Can you think of any other reason I may be stalled. I have spent a lot of time trying to get it to work so would not like to lose my investment.
Is there a specific question I can ask my provider IINET?
Do you think that my host provider IINET’s server uses LINUX is an issue (.. Outlook works fine though)
many thanks
Craig
ps : Config test output when I tried setting up as IMAP (again which was working fine in Outlook..)
Postie Configuration Test
Postie Version: 1.7.32
Wordpress Version: 4.5.3
PHP Version: 5.6.24
OS: Linux ihp-osb-lngweb2.ihp.iinet.net.au 2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 5 16:06:47 EDT 2016 x86_64
POSTIE_DEBUG: Off
Time: 2016-08-14 01:45:41 GMT
Error log:
TMP dir: /tmp/
Postie is in /var/www/vhosts/1/136711/webspace/siteapps/WordPress-13223/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/postie/
Cron: On
Alternate Cron: Off
Clock Tests
This shows what time it would be if you posted right now
Post time: 2016-08-14 09:45:41
Encoding
default_charset: UTF-8
DB_CHARSET: utf8
DB_COLLATE:
WordPress encoding: UTF-8
Postie encoding: UTF-8
Connect to Mail Host
checking
imap_open failed: Connection failed to mail.iinet.net.au,143: Connection timed out
Unable to connect. The server said: