[17102] in Athena Bugs
Re: Netscape Mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Fri Aug 27 11:28:13 1999
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:28:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Craig B Watkins <watko@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU
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I respond to mailto: links about five or six times a day using Netscape
4.61 and they work fine.
Go to Preferences|Mail and News
- Under Identity, make sure the Email address field is set to
watko@mit.edu
- Under Mail Servers, the Outgoing server should be set to
outgoing.mit.edu
(Note that outgoing.mit.edu will not deliver any mail that does not have
a mit.edu address.)
Those should be the only two settings you vitally need to SEND mail. If
you want to GET MIT mail via Netscape, the settings are a bit trickier,
since some of them have been concealed in 4.61. Write me privately if you
want to do that, or if the two settings above don't seem to do the trick.
-Todd Belton
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Craig B Watkins wrote:
> Folks-
> With the new release, I can't seem to send mail to anything that has a
> "mailto:<user>" tag, including myself from my own home page. I'm told
> that I need to specify my username from "Preferences", and I've filled
> in every darned field I can find from the "Mail" dialogue box.
> This used to work on the previous release, so I'm pretty sure it's not
> me.
> BTW, I'm sending this from Netscape 3, which seems to have regained
> great popularity since the new release of Netscape 4. These things
> happen.
