Hello Thomas! On Saturday, November 26, 2005, 9:39 PM, you wrote:
>>> Did you buy the box version that "comes with" an email address? I >>> seem to remember something like that... LG>> Really? I didn't know that some boxed versions came with an LG>> e-mail address.. At which domain? Ritlabs? > No, the dial-up login details come with email addresses at the ISP. > So, you sign up for a dial-up account wiht the ISP, they > automatically give you an email address (at least some do that over > here). This is what I understand is meant by "ISPs email address". It's what I understand, too. Comcast assigned one to me, and I was allowed to select 5 additional ones, when I signed up with them for Broadband. My first ISP (Premiernet) was a dial-up, and they supplied me with one e-mail address and with the POP3 and SMTP strings to put in the boxes of Account/Properties/Transport. This consisted of different words from the ones I needed to set up Comcast at Account/Properties/Transport. Further, at yet another ISP (which I used first for dial-up and then for broadband), the domain name didn't work; I had to use the address numbers. Another place a novice like me could get into trouble with set-up is in the Authentication boxes in Account/Properties/Transport/Authentication. Some ISPs are unforgiving about those. I suppose one could find the right way by trial-and-error if the ISP is no help--as Comcast was no help to me. They said they never heard of The Bat! and why didn't I just go with Outlook Express? Or read my mail on their website? grrr I have a vague memory of having to change a setting in Win XP Home to make all this work for dial-up with Premiernet, when I switched from Win95 to WinXP. But I might be confusing that with the switch from dial-up to broadband, with Comcast. It was all a long time ago, as Internet access goes. I give these details to show that it is not easy for a first-time Batter to get it right. Especially if one doesn't have the technical vocabulary to understand the Help file. -- Best regards, Mary The Bat! 3.63.05 (Beta) on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.62.14 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
