And it came to pass that Christopher Jahn wrote:
> And it came to pass that Robert Berman wrote:
>
>> I use yahoo.com as my mail server. The incoming mail server
>> I have defined to be a piop-3 server, pop.mail.yahoo.com.
>> SSL, on both incoming
>> and outgoing mail servers is turned off. I receive mail
>> without any
>> problems.
>>
>> I have the outgoing mail server assigned to
>> smtp.mail.yahoo.com, no SSL. When I attempt to send mail, I
>> see the "connecting to server" window for as long as I want
>> to watch it. there is no connection made. Nothing happens
>> until I cancel the request.
>>
>> I guess half a mail system is better than none, but it
>> would be very nice if I could reply as well.
>>
>> My experience with Mozilla until this morning has ben zero
>> and I still do not know very much about it, but what I have
>> been able to get to work, works remarkably well.
>>
>> Hopefully, this is something trivial that a few hundred of
>> you will say, "oh yeah, that silly little problem."
>>
>
> There's a very good chance your ISP is blocking port 25.
> Many of them do.
>
> If this is the case, you'll have to use your ISP's smtp
> server to send mail.
>
>
Another possibility: Yahoo authorizes SMTP by having you check
your POP mail first. Try checking, and THEN sending.
One of my favorite features of Pegasus is the ability to set
this as a default option for the SMTP server. Mozilla
desperately needs a dialogue to configure this in the UI.
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}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( Dionysian Reveler
If I was a woman I'd stay at home all day and play with my
breasts.
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