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hi.. i want to configure my OE for an intranet mail server.. but every time i
try to send mail it seems to be connecting to the internet.. i do not have a local dns so i have to specify the mail server at the mail client.. how can i do this?? |
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... hi.. i want to configure my OE for an intranet mail server.. but every time i try to send mail it seems to be connecting to the internet.. i do not have a local dns so i have to specify the mail server at the mail client.. how can i do this?? Talk to the mail admin that manages your intranet mail host. They know what setup is required to connect to their server. If you are the one running your mail host (and your network), what are you entering in the POP3 server field in the e-mail account that you define in OE? You ALWAYS have to specify the mail server at the mail client whether you operate a local DNS or not and whether you run your own mail host or not. What happens if you use the WINS hostname for the mail host (i.e., whatever hostname you specified for that other host's Windows setup)? What happens when you use the IP address for that mail host as the POP3 server name? -- __________________________________________________ Post replies to the newsgroup. Share with others. For e-mail: Remove "NIX" and add "#VN" to Subject. __________________________________________________ |
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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?? |
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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). -- __________________________________________________ Post replies to the newsgroup. Share with others. For e-mail: Remove "NIX" and add "#VN" to Subject. __________________________________________________ |
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Tools, Accounts, Mail, Properties, Connection. Uncheck the option to
always connect. -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "jazz" wrote in message ... hi.. i want to configure my OE for an intranet mail server.. but every time i try to send mail it seems to be connecting to the internet.. i do not have a local dns so i have to specify the mail server at the mail client.. how can i do this?? |
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