Look in Netscape under |Preferences|Mail & Newsgroups|Mail Servers. You
may have to play with this a bit but that's where I was successful. You
will have to put your ISP's mail server and your account name with your
ISP.
Ken Wilson
First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is
irrelevant
(Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Wolfgang Bornath
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 12:31 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] Netscape and mail-user
>
>
> Hi,
>
> After a long and winding road and shedding a lot of blood , sweat &
> tears I finally managed to connect my Mandrake 6.0 to the internet via
> ISDN (actually with the help of Kai from isdn4linux mailing list).
> I�m using Netscape for mail handling and it works just fine.
> Now I�m trying a new ISP. There is a small problem which prevents me
> from using Netscape for mail. For this ISP the user-id for mail is
> different to the user-id for login.
> I login to ISP with user-id `blah-blup� (that�s a fake if anybody asks
> ;-))
> For the mailbox I must use user-id `blup�. But I haven�t found any
> place to fit that into Netscape.
>
> Can anybody help or point me to a place to ask?
> I don�t want to setup sendmail and fetchmail but it may be the final
> solution.
>
> wobo
>
>
>
