Re: [expert] Email Setup with Cablemodem Account - How To?

[Dave Lers]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Thanks!!!  This gets me a bit closer to finding out the name of the mail server.  
>How did you get "poptart" again?  I'm not
> understanding how it was "derived by magic".  I have the IP so maybe I can findout 
>that way.

Type host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (your ip), in console and it will return your full
domain name. Replace your subdomain, everything up to the first '.', with
'mail' (for your newsreader its the same thing but 'news').