[17238] in Athena Bugs
Re: use of outgoing.mit.edu vs mit.edu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Tue Oct 5 16:17:46 1999
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 16:07:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU
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I believe the last time I asked the postmasters about this (it has come up
several times since Netscape 3 days), they said that 'mit.edu' was now the
preferred choice ... I know that I changed the setting deliberately
from outgoing.mit.edu when 4.05 was introduced, but now I forget why.
I will check with them again, just to make sure.
-Todd Belton
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Jacob Morzinski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I notice that netscape in infoagents is configured to use
> "mit.edu" as the outgoing mail server. My understanding of the
> desires of the postmasters is that they would prefer
> "outgoing.mit.edu" to be used for this purpose. Perhaps see
> http://web.mit.edu/is/help/eudora/install-95.html#send
> although it's been suggested to me that you simply directly ask
> the postmaster what they want.
>
> The relevant setting in preferences.js is
> user_pref("network.hosts.smtp_server", "outgoing.mit.edu");
