try this
account id: jane.doe&theirdomain.com
pop host: corp.ourdomain.net
yes that is an ampersand... and yes, this is documented in a very obscure
place in I think the Imail user manual.. I had a hard time finding it but
thats the login that works for all mail clients... many will not allow the
@ within the account id.
At 10:22 AM 05/18/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Anybody out there have any experience with the MAC and Mail and News 3.0?
>
>I'm trying to talk a user through configuring their Mac. I had them change
>the SMTP host and POP Host to 'corp.ourdomain.net' and the Account ID to
>'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. She does a send/receive, gets an error that the
>pop host was not found, and then goes back to preferences. The Pop Host was
>automagicly changed to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and the Account
>ID was changed to 'jane.doe'.
>
>Why does it do this? I thought Macs were so easy to work with.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Scott
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