At 07:47 AM 10/23/2003, you wrote:
| If someone, as in your example, is connected to AOL and is sending a
| message to an MSN address, then at that specific point in time, they
| are not your customer, they are an AOL customer and as such should be
| using AOL's smtp servers, definatly not yours.
He is my client because I manage his mailbox on my servers and I get paid
for that ! . He might have another ADSL internet access at his office, and
Wanadoo access at home, and know he is on an AOL access at his girlfriends
summerhouse. He then calls me, and asks : how do I configure my smtp server
in outlook ? And there is no EASY answer to this question, because it will
depend on several factors , and there have been changes during the last 8
years. Using the ISP smtp is the prefered choice for stable connexion, but
for roaming custumers I will still prefer my own smtp servers which can
authenticate him in anycase through 'pop before smtp' , or the known ip
adress classes for his various acces
save your pain and tell him to get eudora.
by the way, aol can delay mail up to *days* if you're trying to smtp out
from their network. you might tell the client that, and then set up a good
webmail system.
-dd
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