Unable to send or receive messages?

I bought a new iphone 4 and after syncing was unable to send or receive messages?

Hi,
Welcome to the  Discussions
The First Step is to try changing the Style of the Messages.
Open a Chat Window to Anybody (you do not have to Send anything you an only do this when a chat window is open).
Go to the View Menu > Messages option
In there change it from balloons to anything else.
Try a Text Chat with someone.
If this does not seem to be it try changing the Font choice in iChat > Preferences > Messages.
The Default is Helvetica and certain variants of this Font can cause problems in iChat (Helvetica Fractions for instance).
If changing the Font works use the Font Book to check the Font. (presuming you re-installed any Font you may have chosen for iChat.)
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LesHarg wrote:
Hello
I use Windows Live Mail to download my emails. This is working fine on two computers for other BT Internet and Gmail accounts. But one of my main BT accounts consistently receives the following messages on both computers:
Unable to send or receive messages for the Btinternet (xxx) account.
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Port: 110
Secure(SSL): No
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Protocol: POP3
Port: 110
Secure(SSL): No
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