Hello Gary, Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 11:02:51 AM, you wrote:
Yes it has to use the ISP's DNS, and AOL somehow stops this and sends a message back saying 'no relay of mail - sorry', even though technically, I'm not relaying mail, rather trying to send it directly. ATT does not stop use of their nameserver so I can send through it, but I can't connect to their nameserver through AOL on the portable - maybe this is never possible - you're stuck with the ISP's nameserver you are connected with? Also I had a realbox/myrealmail account but it expired, and now they are no longer accepting new accounts. I sent an e-mail to them and maybe they will reinstate my old account. ATT did not allow gathering of E-mail off their server so I didn't use this account anymore - but now they do. But I want to use The Bat! anyway. Hopefully I can configure The Bat! 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 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 delivery. You don't need to to A>> use or enter any of your ISP servers in the Mercury configuration. G> I see. This would be equivalent to me using qmail or Postfix in Linux as G> my mail server (both for SMTP and POP3). I can see where Mercury would be G> advantageous for sending mail in Windows. I will check Mercury out, as I G> have questions regarding DNS records, if, or how, it resolves MX records G> before it sends, if it does, etc. Probably uses the ISPs DNS for this if G> it checks. Interesting. -- Best regards, slug mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
