And it came to pass that Parish wrote:
> Christian Biesinger wrote:
>> Parish wrote:
>>> Posting to news.mozilla.org
>>> allows changing ``@'' to ``_AT_'', even though the
>>> messages go out through the same SMTP server.
>>
>> No, posting to news.mozilla.org does not use any SMTP
>> server at all, but the NTTP server news.mozilla.org.
>>
>
> So in the Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings, Advanced
> button on the first screen, "Always use default server"
> means news.mozilla.org (in this case) then?
>
No, it means that if you *email* a reply, or *email in addition*
to posting, the news.mozilla.org account will use your default
SMPT server.
Anything *posted* to news.mozilla.org groups will use the
news.mozilla.org nntp server.
But answering your original question: yes, it appears to be a
bug that Mozilla allows you to enter "user_at_isp.com" in a
field which must contain a valid email format ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
to work with most servers.
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