On 05 Oct 2002, it is alleged that Mark Smith sauntered in to netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:
> Hi Brian, > I fail to see how your comment tells me anything > useful? > > I know how to do the advanced SMPT setup, but it's > buggy as hell. I often end up with 6-8 entries in > there (all with the same name, including blank > some blank lines). > > They were not put there by me! The program does > it. > > I have edited my prefs.js file to remove a ton of > superflous SMTP servers and renamed all references > to smpt1 as per a virgin install, but still it doesn't > work. > > I note that some other people were having the %S > smtp server bug and that there's a fix in AccountManager.js, > but I can't find that file on my system anywhere? > > Help! > > Thanks, > Mark. Y'know, the problem increasingly seems not to be with Moz but with the way you've mucked with it. Removing 'redundant' SMTP settings is pretty much a sure way to get the problem you've described. If you read what I'd written, you would've seen that you have to set the SMTP server in the /account/. If you'd looked there, you'd see that the SMTP server is missing and has been replaced with the query string, %s. It is /here/ that you have to (re)set the SMTP settings -- the Outgoing Sever (SMTP) preferences have nothing to do with it . . . unless you want to set one server as default and then make an account use that default. /b. > Brian Heinrich wrote: >> On 05 Oct 2002, it is alleged that Mark Smith sauntered in to >> netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed: >> >>> Hi, >>> I've been having problems with Mozilla on windows 2000 >>> regarding sending emails. If I create a new account from >>> scratch, everything works, but after a while things stop >>> working! >>> >>> I just get a dialog box saying sending.... but nothing >>> happens. I look in the SMTP advanced setup and note >>> that there was about 6 entries for the same SMTP server, >>> so I deleted them all except one and made it the default. >>> >>> Then I get a different message, cannot find SMTP server >>> %S blah blah blah. Then if I open up the SMTP advanced >>> configuration dialog again, it note that there is a blank >>> line there and the SMTP server is down one entry. So >>> the %S suggests it cannot read the name of the server? >> >> >> You're looking in the wrong place: Edit | Mail & Newsgroups Account >> Settings | [account]: Advanced -- then select an SMTP server. >> >> Note the NGs in my sig for further user questions. >> >> /b. >> >>> Mail receiving works fine. Mail sending on other programs >>> works fine. I am running version 1.2a, and I had the same >>> problem with 1.0 and 1.1. >>> >>> Please help! I am willing to try different things out >>> to try to narrow down the problem if you can suggest >>> something? >>> >>> Kind Regards, >>> Mark Jordan. -- Mozilla end-user questions should be directed to: * snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.general * snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.win32 * snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.mac * snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.unix Note that you need to have SSL enabled and the port set to 563.
