You might want to check your DNS, I couldn't get an IP on cybertime.net but
could on mail.cybertime.net. I had the same problem.
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of CNS
> Hostmaster
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 1:17 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [IMail Forum] SMTP AUTH & Netscape & DSL/Cable
>
>
> We recently had, and solved, a SMTP AUTH & Netscape &
> DSL/Cable problem.
> Let me report it here to try and explain the situation, and
> our solution.
> I hope it helps some other people.
>
> We moved our IMail 6.05 server from one machine (3 years old)
> to a new one.
> After doing so, we got some odd reactions.
>
> When I had Disable SMTP "AUTH" reporting UNchecked, Netscape
> users got send
> failures. Even Netscape 4.7.5, which worked fine on the old
> machine, fails
> when talking to the new one. When I enabled (checked) it,
> DSL/Cable modem
> users who host their domains here could not send mail. Those
> people are on
> dynamic IPs that are not under our control, so I saw no easy
> way put them
> in the "Relay mail for Addresses" list.
>
> So I had a choice of who I was going to irritate, our domain account
> holders, or our Netscape users. I chose to tackle the
> Netscape problem.
> My solution is based on how you have to set things up in the
> older versions
> of Eudora, which is why I thought of trying it. I have not
> used the newer
> versions of Eudora, so I have no clue if this is still needed.
>
> In short, the solution is to set the "Outgoing mail server
> user name" in
> Netscape to:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Use the regular account naming for the POP3.
>
> Here is my test case:
> Our test account is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". So in Netscape I
> set both the
> e-mail and reply to addresses as that. The POP3 is
> "mail.cybertime.net",
> and the POP3 user is "test". The Outgoing mail (SMTP) server
> is set to
> "mail.cybertime.net", and the Outgoing mail server user name is
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
>
> This was done in Netscape 4.7.5 and it worked. If I change
> the Outgoing
> mail server user name to just "test", or
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", it fails.
> The instructions for doing this are not difficult, and the
> few Netscape
> users we have were easily able to change their settings and
> have things
> working again.
>
> With a little luck, this will help someone else out there.
>
> Eric McCormick
> Hostmaster for CNS
>
>
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