DoctorBill wrote:
I guess what I using with SeaMonkey is pop3 mail - right ?
Maybe. SeaMonkey can do both pop3 and imap.
POP3 is the legacy email method that works like the real mail. Mail
comes to your postoffice (your mail server) and when you check your mail
it is delivered "physically" to your mailbox (Inbox). With email that
means on your own computer.
IMAP is different, it is a little like webmail. When you check your mail
it stays on your mail providers server server and you only get sent a
temporary copy of the message that is in your inbox on the remote
server. There is not really a postoffice analogy, but would be like to
get you mail you would call your postmaster and they would read to you
any mail that you received but but the actual letter would remain stored
at the postoffice.
My ISP is Frontier, then.....right ?
Okay, but in SeaMonkey you can have more than just your ISP's email
accounts. The other thing to remember is email typically uses two
different protocols and servers for the total email exchange; one for
outgoing and one for incoming.
The Frontier site said that it uses some AOL type of coding (?) which is
special to
Frontier, but even that is going to be dumped in 2018....all of which is
Martian to me.
I understand about this "outgoing" business, but do not understand HOW
to or WHAT to
put WHERE !
Under "Outgoing Server (smtp) Settings", it says I can add, edit, select
(doesn't say HOW)
what I can use. I also have two gmail accounts, the one Frontier
account and this News Group.
If I want to use one of the Gmail accounts to send a message, the error
says the mail.Frontier.com smtp setting is wrong. Is that because it is
the default ?
I tried setting the gmail outgoing as default, but that also gives an
error.
A lot of ISP are outsources or dropping mailservers...Verizon just
dropped theirs. I think what is confusing is that as I said above the
email exchange thing uses two different services for outgoing and
incoming email. Where people get tripped up is that they *can* setup
multiple *incoming* email from different companies and for *outgoing*
use only one, the default SMTP server which was the first they set up
and usually their ISP. But sometimes, dare I say frequently this can
cause issues.
So you *could* get gmail from gmail but send outgoing gmail using your
Frontier.com smtp server, but Frontier may not "like" that and give you
problems. Better to set to gmail to use gmail.com for your SMTP server.
I have given you step by step instructions on how to do this elsewhere
in the thread. Follow it and I think it will fix your issue.
Tried one of the gmail outgoing settings given by someone here, but got
the same error
message.
There are so many people on this thread, some arguing, some telling me I
should do what
THEY say, some implying I am dumb......this is like a Chinese Fire Drill !
I think perhaps it is too far above my head to try anymore. All I
wanted to do is use the
SeaMonkey E-Mail stuff like before with my old ISP (which worked well).
Ever since Frontier came online, it has been chaos.
It is why when I started switching ISP I did not bother with their
email, I switch to gmail for my personal email keeping my email
independent from my ISP.
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Take care,
Jonathan
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http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com
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