By any chance, does the email account in question have an "@" in it?
If so, add the following line to user.js
user_pref("mail.allow_at_sign_in_user_name", true);
Steve Greene
In article <ajktfo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, HawkEye
<neilDOTwilliamsATolealliance-dgDOTcoDOTuk> says...
> Brian Heinrich wrote:
> > On 14 Aug 2002, it is alleged that sauntered in to
> > netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> OK Prob : I am trying to get my boss to move from Outlook to Mozilla
> >> (or something similar) so I am testing Moz 1.1 connectivity to
> >> Exchange 5.5 :( Prob is whilst I can retrieve my mail fine I cant send
> >> keeps coming up, cant connect to SMTP server %S. This is running Moz
> >> on Win2k. I have an older version of Moz on a Mandrake Linux box and
> >> that works fine.
> >>
> >> Following suggestions from this group I went into SMTP Advanced and
> >> set the server up there, trouble is it has 2 default server positions
> >> and will not let me delete eitehr of them (I think this may be the
> >> issue) BTW I'm using the IMAP side of things to retrieve mail.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions any one??
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Neil
> >
> >
> > Having two defaults shouldn't be a problem; this seems to be a known issue.
> >
> > If you're getting %s, it just means that there is no defined SMTP server
> > for that account; go to Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups Account
> > Settings | [account]; click on the 'Advanced' button and set your SMTP
> > server there.
> >
> > /b.
> >
> Thanks will try that, but I think the prob may be with my exchange
> server as well as my linux version has stopped working too. Will
> re-boot it later and see if that cures the prob.
>
> Thanks again for the help.
>
> Neil
>
>
