Orson,
I'm on @home when I'm at home <grin> and one thing that's commonly
overlooked is that the words "mail" and "news" only work if you have
the right "DNS search suffix" set. If you're on DHCP, this should be
taken care of automatically. If not, you need to set it. If you're
on DHCP and can't ping "mail" and "news," and those don't get turned
into longer host names when you ping them, contact tech support for
@home.
For example, if I ping "mail," DOS tells me it's pinging
mail.rchdsn1.tx.home.com. The part after "mail" matches my DNS search
suffix. And, if I use the server name mail.rchdsn1.tx.home.com, I can
get my mail from anywhere on the net, because the client knows the
name of the machine with my account on it.
As someone else mentioned, there is also a "netmail" service that lets
you use a name like mail.home.com to check your mail.
Tony
Orson Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said at 12:10 PM on 7/7/2001:
> Hi Nick,
> Yes, "mail" is used for both SMTP server and Mail Server -- it works
> and it's what was recommended by AT&T.
> Maybe I have to enter the full address for my mail servers?
> Orson
>>> I have AT&T @Home, and with this ISP the name we enter for mail
>>> server is simply "mail".
>> I believe that is where your problem may lie. Simply typing "mail" should
>> not work... it has to be "mail.server name". What have you listed as your
>> SMTP Server? Are you able to send messages with just "mail" as you SMTP
>> Server name?
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