when using AOL as an ISP but using an independent email client to send
and receive mail, what SMTP server should be specified in the mail
client;s account settings?

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Request for Question Clarification by joseleon-ga on 06 Aug 2002 00:21 PDT

Hello:
  A mail account (in most cases) has nothing to do with your Internet
Service Provider, who is your mail account provider? Free account,
paid account?

Regards.

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Request for Question Clarification by alienintelligence-ga on 06 Aug 2002 04:09 PDT

Hi seymoursegnit

Would this pertain to your situation?

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[ http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/ecomm/smtpmove/isps.html#AOL ]

As of AOL version 6.0, AOL seems to have solved this problem in a
particularly ingenious way. It doesn't matter what SMTP server you
have your email program set to use; while you're dialed in using AOL,
all SMTP requests are answered by AOL's own SMTP server
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-AI

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Clarification of Question by seymoursegnit-ga on 06 Aug 2002 10:02 PDT

Here is what I want to acheive:

I use a regular cable connection at home via a local ISP which does
not offer dial-up service. I will be away travelling for a couple of
months and the colleague with whom I will be travelling has an AOL
account which we can share to connect to the internet.

I have no interest in using any of AOL's services, I just want to send
& receive mail from my regular Outlook email client. When I've tested
this I've found that my email collects perfectly from the POP3
account, but I get an error message trying to send via the regular
SMTP server.

My question then is: When connected to the internet via AOL, what SMTP
server should I specify in Outlook so that mail is sent?

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Request for Question Clarification by alienintelligence-ga on 06 Aug 2002 11:16 PDT

Right... and did you look at the
clarification I requested?

Does your colleague use AOL 6.0
If not, can you talk him into it?

The URL I provided says AOL 6.0
will intercept SMTP requests as
it's own, with no special adjustments
being made. Prior versions will
not allow you to use SMTP at all
from what I have read. Your solution
appears to be in AOL version 6.

-AI

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Clarification of Question by seymoursegnit-ga on 06 Aug 2002 12:27 PDT

OK - Here's where we are. the friend is running a Mac with OSX. AOL
provides a version 5.0 of their software for OSX. Is there another
workaround, I wonder. Thanks BTW for your stunningly quick reply.

SS

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Request for Question Clarification by alienintelligence-ga on 06 Aug 2002 14:17 PDT

Hi again seymoursegnit
 
I haven't been able to verify SMTP
functionality in it, but there appears
to be a beta AOL for OS X out there
c. May 2002

[ http://www.thinksecret.com/features/aolmacosx2/ ]

The beta is available from Keyword: Beta on AOL

I have no access to a mac at the moment,
or I would try it out for you. Can your
friend download it? Would he be willing?
I would presume that it would have the
same SMTP capture and forward abilities
as the AOL 6.0 for PC.

-AI

To use Outlook and SMTP while on AOL's network, configure your SMTP
server to authenticate and listen on an alternate port (e.g. 2525). A
dedicated email service provider such as Everyone.net
<http://www.everyone.net/> typically offers authenticated SMTP on
alternate ports if you prefer not to set this up yourself. If you have
an Exchange Server, it might just be easier to setup Outlook For The
Web. Netscape Mail can speak AOL's proprietary email protocol if you
don't mind using a different email client. Indeed, if you don't need
to use Outlook, you can use a web mail service or even have your
friend set you up with an AOL screen name on his account. (The last
method won't let you both be logged in simultaneously.) Finally,
assuming your connection is fast enough, you can use Remote Desktop
Connection Client <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/rdc/default.asp>
or Timbuktu <http://www.netopia.com/en-us/software/products/tb2/mac/index.html>
to control Outlook on a computer that can SMTP as usual.

Hey.. seymour (is it?)

Do what I do...

I have a POP work account and use AOL at home..

So I signed up for the www.hotpop.com free SMTP E-Mail service...

I then added a new account in Outlook Express for my new HotPop
account

and in my OFFICE POP3 account, I changed the SMTP server to the
smtp.hotpop.com account..

WORKED GREAT...

(Note... you have to use the hotpop.com e-mail address in the GENERAL
TAB, when EDITING your OFFICE POP-3 account, but you put your office
e-mail right under that, in the REPLY TO box, so anyone GETTING e-mail
from you, using while REPLY correctly to your office e-mail...)

Than on the SERVERS TAB, use your office POP server for the "Incoming"
one, and use the smtp.hotpop.com as the OUTGOING one..)

anyway

Hope that helps..

later.

-Sapphire