smtp

[Cliff Wells]

On Thursday 25 October 2001 06:43, Sheila King wrote:

> This is what AOL does, and yet his program didn't work. However...
> with AOL, even though you use a non-AOL address in the From: field, it
> adds some "apparently-from:" header to the email, with your AOL address
> in it. Is it possible, that he wasn't 'logged-on' as an AOL userid, and
> so the earthlink.net addy got refused as a bad sender? (He got

Actually he was logged into AOL as himself, and specified his AOL email 
address in the From: field.

> Still, the best thing is to let the user also specify his own SMTP
> server. I'm not sure why you aren't letting the user configure that for
> themself?

I'm trying to make it as simple as possible for the user, and I can imagine 
that many users don't know their SMTP server's address (or even what an SMTP 
server is, for that matter).  

-- 
Cliff Wells
Software Engineer
Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net)
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