On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:47:36AM -0700, patrick q wrote: | AFAIK, I'm just an ordinary dialup user and should be sending mail to | my telco isp, pop.mts.net, to which I connect to retrieve mail, but | which refuses telnet connections to port 25
I would expect that a POP server would ignore SMTP connection attempts :-). There is probably a different name for the ISP's SMTP server, maybe mail.mts.net or smtp.mts.net. I would imagine that they provide instructions for configuring Outlook and Netscape for sending mail and you can grab the name of the server out of it. I found with my "ISP" I now need to use authentication (the SMTP "AUTH" command). If I dial-up through the school I don't need to authenticate (I'm using the school as the smarthost). When I (recently) got DSL I am no longer connecting from within the school's network so I need to authenticate (because they don't want to be a spammer's helper). HTH, -D
