Phillip Jones wrote: > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >> Paul wrote: >>> Depending on your news server, you may also have to tell it >>> your SMTP (outgoing) settings. Mine is >> >> That is for email, and doesn't apply. >> > According to SeaMonkey on description the setup panel in Preferences: > http://screencast.com/t/ZDc1YjEyM
Yep. Looks like the same for years and years. > you have POP3 for incoming Mail, > you have NNTP for incoming News <-- (and outgoing News) True. > and you have SMTP that handles any traffic going out. Untrue. Only email. > there is no mention of anything for other than sending messages (makes > no distinction of whether for news or email) > > however I've found these definitions: > > NNTP see: > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=mozilla&defl=en&q=define:NNTP&sa=X&ei=UnsXTOK6LcK78ga7jIGZCQ&ved=0CBEQkAE > > SMTP see: > http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3ASMTP&btnG=Search&hl=en&client=mozilla&sa=2 The very first definition there says: "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard for electronic mail *(e-mail)* transmission across Internet Protocol (IP) networks. .." > POP3 see: > http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3APOP3&btnG=Search&hl=en&client=mozilla&sa=2 SMTP is not used for news. My newsreaders (which are not email clients) have no SMTP settings. -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
