Hello Paul
Thank you for your email dated Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 7:37:10 PM, in which you
wrote:
PC Allie was kind enough to direct me to his web page for setting up Mercury SMTP
I've checked the archives but can't find the URL. Is it still available?
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Regards
William
Flying
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 6:57:22 PM, Gary wrote:
G Might try Netscape, Eudora, or Opera mail. All of these provide for a
G mail user, sending and receiving mail, *however* I do not know if they now
G provide for you to POP (get) your mail directly off their server now via
G using TB! (or
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 6:57:22 PM, Gary wrote:
G Yahoo for example at one time allowed this, but now *charge* for it.
Just for reference yahoo.co.uk still allows free pop mail access
via your mail client. I use this for my genealogy lists. For some
reason they didn't introduce the
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:33:05PM -0600 or thereabouts, slug wrote:
I can't however get it to work with the AOL account. I keep getting
the reply 'will not relay non-local mail'. I thought the mercury
bypassed this and sent mail directly. I'm not sure what to enter in
Hello Gary,
Yes, I think I've finally realized that. I'm not sure it's the port
25 thing or not since I can configure the software to use another
port. But AOL say's it will not relay messages or allow use of any
other software to send messages through it. I wouldn't use AOL, but
Hi slug,
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 10:03 AM, you mentioned about ATT Broadband
connections problems:
s Yes, I think I've finally realized that. I'm not sure it's the port
s 25 thing or not since I can configure the software to use another
s port.
Of course you can configure any
ON Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 5:03:05 PM, you wrote:
s 2. Does anybody have alternative ideas for another ISP that would
s provide connections throughout the US for travelling people that is
s not bound up like AOL is, and allows users to use their own e-mail
s clients (for me,
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Gary [G] wrote:'
G Mercury would work best if you had your own domain, and running
G your own mail server. Otherwise, I don't see any practical use
G for it, as TB! provides all the transport (SMTP POP3)
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:29:14AM -0500 or thereabouts, Allie C Martin wrote:
Gary [G] wrote:'
G Mercury would work best if you had your own domain, and running
G your own mail server. Otherwise, I don't see any practical use
G for it, as TB! provides all the transport (SMTP POP3) info
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Gary [G] wrote:'
G Does Mercury have their own mail servers.. How else could it
G deliver to domains if ISPs block port 25? There are several ISPs,
G i.e. ATT, Simpatico, etc., which block 25, so their
Hi Allie,
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 11:43 AM, you mentioned about ATT Broadband
connections problems:
A Mercury *is* the mail server. You don't need another mail server to
A relay mail for you when you're using Mercury. Mercury has it's own SMTP
A server that will carry out a direct mail
Hello Gary,
Att works for me with Mercury, but AOL will not. I got the IP address
of the nameserver on my PC with ATT by using IPConfig/ALL in the
command prompt window (Win 2000) - they may change over time so I may
have to re-enter. But you are right, not very usefull for me -maybe
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Gary [G] wrote:'
G I see. This would be equivalent to me using qmail or Postfix in
G Linux as my mail server (both for SMTP and POP3). I can see where
G Mercury would be advantageous for sending mail in
! to get and send e-mail through a free account.
We'll see.I'm stuck with an AOL connection no matter what - on
the portable.
G Hi Allie,
G On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 11:43 AM, you mentioned about ATT Broadband
connections problems:
A Mercury *is* the mail server. You don't need
Hi Allie,
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 12:09 PM, you mentioned about ATT Broadband
connections problems:
G I see. This would be equivalent to me using qmail or Postfix in Linux
G as my mail server (both for SMTP and POP3). I can see where Mercury
G would be advantageous for sending mail
Hi slug,
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 12:08 PM, you mentioned about ATT Broadband
connections problems:
s Att works for me with Mercury, but AOL will not.
Does not surprise me at all. AOL does not do anything standard. g
s I got the IP address of the nameserver on my PC with ATT
Hi slug,
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 12:16 PM, you mentioned about ATT Broadband
connections problems:
s ATT does not stop use of their nameserver so I can send through it,
^^^ SMTP server name server is DNS
s but I can't connect
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 1:57 PM, you wrote:
G Might try Netscape, Eudora, or Opera mail. All of these provide for a
G mail user, sending and receiving mail, *however* I do not know if they now
G provide for you to POP (get) your mail directly off their server now via
G using TB! (or
Hi Paul,
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 1:09 PM, you mentioned about ATT Broadband
connections problems:
G using TB! (or any mail client). Yahoo for example at one time allowed
G this, but now *charge* for it. If you go to the sites mentioned above, you
G can find out.
P Gary, I use
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 3:01 PM, you wrote:
P I tried postcast, but it seems to be a resource hog, it took FOREVER
P to boot up. Mercury is nice ( free), fast (free), and does the job!!
P and did I mention it is FREE??
G Was that like free? If the true be known, my entire OS and all
Hi Paul,
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 3:01 PM, you mentioned about ATT Broadband
connections problems:
P I have used UNIX since 1985, I would switch to Linux ( free red hat
P 7.3 or 8.0) in a heartbeat IF I didn't have a wife kids that live by
P the MS products at home and work/school
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 4:38 PM, you wrote:
P I might put together a Linux server soon, it's just not a high priority
P right now. I also got the free copy of Corel WordPerfect for Linux with
P their Corel LINUX distro, and I also have openOffice somewhere:) .
G I use that and
* Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 4:38 PM, you wrote:
Yep, I live in VI(m) or Emacs.
emacs is a full-suite, including email, right??
Yes. Look at the header of this mail.
It's LIKE VI,
NO !!1!
but...different:)
Ah, okay ;-)
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Best regards,
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Carsten Thönges [CT] wrote:'
emacs is a full-suite, including email, right??
CT Yes. Look at the header of this mail.
This thread has now ventured off topic for too long.
Let's end it here shall we
Hello slug,
I thought I'd add one more message to this thread - my solution to
the problem of sending e-mail through my AOL account while traveling,
and using The Bat! to access and organize all my email.
No luck with sending anything through AOL - not even with Mercury -
they somehow
Hello All,
I'm using The Bat! 6.1 and am having problems sending mail through my
ATT broadband Webmail account when connected through AOL while
traveling. I can receive mail no problem. And OE set up like ATT
requires has not problems with sending mail either as described here:
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Slug [S] wrote:'
S I'm using The Bat! 6.1
;) I wonder when TB! will reach that version and what it would be
capable of by then?
S If anybody else has a solution I would appreciate it. Or any
S
slug wrote:
Hello All,
I set up the smpt connection with authentication in the Account
Properties screen. I choose Secure to dedicated port (TLS) and choose
port 465 as listed. In the authentication box I check Perform smpt
Authentication, and use specific settings with my e-mail
Hello Allie,
I downloaded the Mercury software, but came up upon conputerese
problems. I don't know what a nameserver is. I was actually able to
start the command prompt window in Win2000 and find nameserver listed
by running IPConfig /all. So it is working on my broadband account.
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Slug [S] wrote:'
S I downloaded the Mercury software, but came up upon conputerese
S problems. I don't know what a nameserver is.
It's a DNS server. It does the lookups for domain names and provide
you with the corresponding IP addresses. You may not
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