Brent Watson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As a relative novice to all of this, I am not sure how to handle the
> problems with SMTP and AT&T. My client uses a pool of approx. 5 dial-up
> accounts through AT&T to access the 20 or so e-mail accounts I host on IMail
> for them. They would like to use Outlook 97 for the accounts, but as
> discussed in many preceeding messages they cannot send messages through
> their SMTP server.
>
> What is the best procedure to use to allow them to send e-mail through
> Outlook?
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> Brent
The general solution is to set up Outlook's outgoing (SMTP) server to
whatever AT&T is using, while leaving the incoming (POP or IMAP) server
pointed to your IMail server. This is a client thing. The only problems
identified in the discussion, if I have followed it correctly, are
(minor) discrepancies in the headers of the message, which will become
all more frequent as users become more mobile, and the problems of
laptop users who dial in from home using one account and plug in at work
with another account. Each account has the same userid and incoming
server, but a different SMTP server to deliver to. Fiddly bits, but
nothing more than that. If I've stated anything wrongly here, I'm sure
someone looking over my shoulder will slap me.
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