Hello Julian
On 23-Feb-01, you wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> I enjoyed what you wrote to Chris Ralph. on Fri, Feb 23, 2001:
>
>>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>>> But I can't get YAM to work with their mail setup.
>>>
>>> The POP3 server and the SMTP server address is supposed to be just
>>> "mail", and this is what is shown on the PC ('98), and it sends and
>>> receives OK, but YAM rejects both and says TCP/IP may be not working
>>> or the address is invalid. I can d/l mail from my dialup account via
>>> the cable modem connection with YAM - about 20k speed, but nothing
>>> else works.
>>
>> On some mail clients, but not YAM, if you just stick "mail" into the
>> server configuration, they automatically try appending the ISP domain
>> name to the server name (i.e. mail.domain.com). Perhaps if you try
>> replacing "mail," with what the complete mail server name might be, that
>> might help?
>>
>> Though it is possible that they've called their mail server just "mail"
>>
>> Personally, I wish that mail programs could accept variables in their
>> server configurations, then I could set Miami up to set a variable in a
>> dial script, perhaps; so that when I called my different ISPs, the SMTP
>> server would always be the one for the ISP I actually dialled up, without
>> having to re-configure YAM.
>>
>> --
>> Bye,
>> Tim.
>>
>
> I have but one question: "Do you have, or, insist on having,
> only one configuration for Miami, as well as YAM?" I use three
> dialup ISP's. I have three separate Miami configurations (one
> for each), and two separate E-Mail configurations (as one of my
> ISP's only has Web-mail as the means to send and receive mes-
> sages). Whenever I know I want to deal with one ISP, I must
> load the appropriate configuration -- no big deal.
I did verify: there is no YAM arexx command to choose an other
configuration, but you could still have a set of configurations and have a
YAM launching script in which you choose & copy one of them as 'Default'
just before loading YAM.
All the best
Joseph
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