On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 06:09 PM, Mledie at aol.com wrote: > When I signed up with > Apple, they offered me a try with 90 days of earthlink and the outlook > express mail service. I still use aol, however, I can reach earthlink > through > dialing aol up and then clicking on internet explorer. I can also go to > the > remote access panel and set the server to the other ppp and get on this > way. > If I then shut off and try aol again, it tells me that the panel is set > wrong, but fixes it automatically, but if I want to start earthlink > just by > clicking the explorer button, this will only tell me that I have to > change my > settings, Anyone to explain this mystery?
That's because the AOL client will only talk to AOL, so it checks to make sure you are set up for AOL and sets you that way, if it finds otherwise. Earthlink is just a general Internet provider, and no software is going to check for it because no software is Earthlink specific. > I also cannot send mail through > that mail system, It tells me the administrator won't let the mail go > through. I suspect the SMTP server is set wrong in your mail program. It's probably set to an AOL SMTP server, and AOL won't let an Earthlink account use it's resources. (Or vice versa.) Lee The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be May 28. For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
