"jazz" wrote in message
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i'm setting up the accounts.. i have got a local domain name.. in the
pop3
server i have entered "mail.mydomainname.com".. by host name u mean
the name
of the system that is hosting my mail server rite? and can i enter an
ip
address in the place of the pop3 server??

Please don't use chatspeak in Usenet (u, rite, no caps). It just makes
your post harder to read, and you are the one asking for help.

Are you running a PDC (primary domain controller) and having your users
log into it? Or is your "domain" really just a workgroup name? I find
it quite unusual that you say you have a domain yet you don't have a DNS
server which makes me wonder if you really have a domain server at all.

If it really is a domain (rather than a workgroup), and since you are
not running your own DNS server to do the IP name lookup (since
computers find each other using IP addresses), is your domain a
registered one that would then have a record in whomever's DNS server
that you do use? If you specify a domain but your DNS server doesn't
have a record for that domain (or any DNS server to which it passes the
lookup request), there will be no IP address returned to find whatever
host on which your mail server is running.

If you are really using a workgroup, and if WINS is enabled
(http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...insLookup.htm),
have your tried using the hostname that you gave to the mail server's
host? Right-click on the My Computer desktop icon, Properties, Computer
Name. You'll see the "full computer name" and "workgroup" values. Try
using that host's hostname in the POP3 field in the e-mail account in
OE. I'm not really sure that OE can use hostnames.

You can ALWAYS use IP addresses. IP names, like "download.intel.com"
are only for the convenience of humans in remembering those names and
perhaps making them descriptive so users know what that host or domain
is for. They always have to be converted to an IP addresses since that
is how computers find each other. Humans don't do well at remembering
IP numbers, even in their dottet-decimal form. WINS can use hostnames
but TCP needs to get an IP address. In the POP3 field in the e-mail
account in OE, use the IP address assigned to your mail server's host
from whatever DHCP server you are using to assign those IP addresses, or
use the static one if you configured that particular host to use a
static IP address (and make sure you don't have any other host using the
same static IP address). If you have an account with your ISP that lets
you concurrently connect multiple hosts through their service, their
DHCP server will assign the IP addresses to your intranet nodes. If you
have a router or are using a gateway host with ICS, those have their own
DHCP server and will assign IP addresses to your intranet nodes, usually
in the 192.168.x.x range.

So far, all you've mentioned about YOUR e-mail server(s) is that you
have an "intranet server". So what is it? A POP3 server? An IMAP
server? An SMTP server? Does it support more than one mail protocol so
it does both POP3 and SMTP? Obviously you cannot send e-mails through a
POP3 server since POP3 is for *retrieving* e-mails. SMTP is used for
sending e-mails. Could be your "intranet server" is Exchange or some
other mail server program. Maybe it's sendmail running on a Linux host.
Don't know. No details. You don't even bother to mention the operating
systems for the OE and mail server host. Could be the OE host is some
old version of Windows that requires NetBUEI to be enabled to find
hostnames.

You probably should start by getting OE to connect to someone else's
mail server, like to your e-mail account at your ISP, Hotmail, or Gmail.
Then you know you've got the network setup sufficiently to let OE
connect somewhere. Then focus on getting connected to your mail server
(and asking over the in the mail admin groups would be a better place to
ask about mail servers than in a group dedicated to resolving e-mail
*client* problems).

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