Hello Deryk,
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 11:08:11 PM, you wrote:
>> Fascinated by your account of VPOP3 and have downloaded and
>> installed it. But I'm groping in the dark with the technicalities I
>> find. I just want to do what you describe - send messages while
>> connected to a number of different ISPs without a lot of bother. I
>> wonder if you would be so good as to let me have details of the
>> basic setup needed in order to do this?
DL> No problem. Assuming you have VPOP3 installed on the same system
DL> as TB, you just need to go to Account -> Properties and set the
DL> SMTP server as 127.0.0.1. That's the TB setup done.
DL> Next, open up the VPOP3 settings. I think you need to set up a
DL> connection first in the Connection tab. Call it whatever you like,
DL> and choose "Use LAN for connection" for simplicity. Now go to the
DL> Out Mail tab and choose "SMTP Direct (MX Records)". At this point,
DL> it needs a DNS server. You can find this out from your ISP - the
DL> website will usually tell you. Otherwise it's possible to use
DL> 195.8.69.7 which is the DNS server for my ISP :) The rest of the
DL> settings should be ok. When you send mail from TB, the red postbox
DL> in your system tray should show a letter waiting to be posted.
DL> Hopefully it should go automatically (test it by sending email to
DL> yourself). Otherwise, right click on the icon and choose connect.
Very many thanks. I seem to have things working OK so far as I can
tell. I had some problems with running ExtraDNS at first. Also my
browser wouldn't work! However it's all good clean fun and such a joy
to be able to send messages with the headers that I want instead of
having to use different things for different ISPs. I had no idea such
a thing was possible. Why does anyone use ISPs SMTP services? How DOES
the VPOP3 method work I wonder? I wish I knew a bit more about such
things. Certainly TheBat cooperates wonderfully well in all such
matters. If only it supported MAPI (which I need for a utility to send
graphics via email), it would be perfect for me. The ability to
reformat quoted text, which I have only seen before in Golded, is
simply wonderful and I use it constantly. But what use is the Ticker I
wonder? I haven't found anything sensible that I can do with it so
far!
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Best regards,
Tony mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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