>Uh, OK, I solved the problem like this: > >Username: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Email account: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Email password: ***** >SMTP server: mail.sam-radford.me.uk > >I thought it was worth posting just for the archive. :-)
One misconception many support teams have is how the Username in Emailer works. Basically, the Username in Emailer, is useless arbitrary information. You can set that field to anything you darn well please, and it won't impact how your email operations (all it changes is in the display of your name in an email you write, but that has no bearing any anything other than visual appearances). In other email clients, the Username is the field you enter to set what the actual POP account is that you want to log into (or in the case of SMTP Authentication, what logon name to use for the authentication). That is why most tech support people will tell you to set the Username field to whatever the correct username is. So in Emailer speak, whatever username they tell you to use, put that into the Email Account field, then type the @ sign, then put whatever they tell you is the inbound or POP mail server. That is they way Emailer works. Of course, in the case of your account, Emailer can't use two @ signs in the Email Account field, so you have to substitute the first one for a % so Emailer will split the username and pop server correctly. Since that works for you, stick with it, but for those that can't use a % or any other symbol, there is a patch on my FTP site (patch1.sit) that will let Emailer use multiple @ signs in the Email Account field. The patch causes Emailer to break the info at the LAST @ it finds, not the first (well, technically, it is still breaking at the first, but now it reads looks from the back to the front, making the the first it finds the last in the field... in case anyone actually cared). I do NOT recommend using the patches on my FTP site UNLESS you NEED to use them. So like I said, since the % works for you, stick with it. I don't recommend using the patches simply because I don't know what else I might have altered by accident. Therefore it is safest to not use them unless you have no choice. (BTW: the patch2.sit will also install the dual @ ability, as well as reverse the POP/SMTP order so Emailer will check mail before it sends mail, letting Emailer automatically POP Authenticate itself so people don't have to use AppleScripts). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
