From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 4 20:53:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA25164 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:53:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from corp.au.triax.com (slwag2p01.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA25159 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:53:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@corp.au.triax.com) Received: (from jim@localhost) by corp.au.triax.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id PAA02490; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 15:53:10 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 15:53:09 +1100 From: Jim Mock To: David Kelly Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape Communicator 4.5, username? Message-ID: <19990205155309.A2442@corp.au.triax.com> Reply-To: jim@corp.au.triax.com References: <199902050345.VAA74203@nospam.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199902050345.VAA74203@nospam.hiwaay.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 04 Feb 1999 at 21:45:05 -0600, David Kelly wrote: [snip..] > > Nope. All you need to do is the following.. > > > > Edit -> Preferences -> Mail & Newsgroups -> Mail Servers > > > > Click the host in the Incoming Mail Servers box, then edit. Add > > your username for the mail server in there, and it should shut it > > up =) > > I don't receive mail with Netscape, only occasionally send mail. > I don't use it to send or receive, but I still had to add it in order to stop it from giving errors. > "It *should* shut it up." ??? Outgoing mail server user name was > one of the first things I filled in. > I just checked my settings, and I don't even have Outgoing mail server user name set. > Everything in the Preferences->Mail Servers dialog box was filled. > By default the "Incoming Mail Servers" list contained, "pop". And > just now I deleted it. Maybe that is the solution? Am offline at the > moment so its hard to say if removing POP fixed it. But so far so good! > Could be. AFAIK, it considers "pop" the incoming mail server, therefore requiring a user name. Deleting it should work as long as netscape doesn't regenerate the default "pop" server when it's restarted. > "Outgoing mail (SMTP) server:" is localhost > "Outgoing mail server user name" is dkelly, which still produced > the error messages. As did leaving this field blank. > Correct, because it was looking at the Incoming mail server username. -- : Jim Mock | [jim@corp.au.triax.com] : : System Administrator | http://www.triax.com/ : : Triax Internet Services | ----------------------------- : : Portland, OR USA | The FreeBSD' zine : : Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia | http://www.freebsdzine.org/ : : FreeBSD: The Power To Serve | http://www.freebsd.org/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message