Testing out my mail account with my new hosting service. It sends but does not receive. It does not receive even from itself. It does not receive as a reply from a mail it sent. It does not like green eggs and ham, and it's up to me to figure out why. After all, receipt and processing of emails is central to my project. Could it be the fact that I haven't filled in any of the reply-to fields in the preferences? Let's see...

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Thank you abc@xyz.com for testing this out for me. What can I say, faking my way through being a system administrator is, how should I say, "nuanced." Here's the facts: 1) There is something called a default mail account, which appears to receive all incoming emails to a certain domain. I did not bother to set up liz@egrigg9000.com and that's why it worked: I was checking the default account all along. 2) I now know how to check the me@egrigg9000.com account and presto there's all my test messages. Phew, not crazy. However: 3) All this time I was sending test messages, I actually expected them to come into my web based yahoo client. This is because I configured yahoo to check another random pop account that I have and it works fine. Did the same with my new domain and yahoo ignored it. Was it something I said? 4) Good news, I ignored the info from hosting matters and declared that my pop was mail.egrigg9000.com as opposed to just egrigg9000.com like they told me. Then I also ignored yahoo's advice to have my username be the left of the @ sign, and instead put in the entire address. So it works. Ah the mysteries of the universe, like looking at the starry heavens on your back with your spaceship and time machine at your side.

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