On 7 Sep 2000, 19:59 Alan S. Harrell wrote:
>
> I had a message from one of our members that he was having difficulty
> sending mail through mailandnews.com smtp servers. Well, I just tried to
> send something out and I too was rejected by their smtp servers. So I
> played with it some and it now seems to me that you cannot send through
> mailandnews.com unless you authenticate with your password. This where
> your client logs into the smtp server with a password just as you do when
> you log into a pop3 server with password.
>
> Could someone else confirm this for me? Try to send a test message
> through mailandnews without popping first or authenticating in any way. If
> not successful, then try to authenticate. You can set your preferences to
> do this in OE, Pegasus and I believe the most current Eudora, as well. In
> most clients that have this capability, you set it to send the same
> password as your pop3 password.
I was able to send without popping.
Dennis
