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Date:	Sat, 19 Apr 2003 16:44:43 PDT7
From:	"Gary Wong" <gary.wong@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: SBC DSL Email Issues

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It's tony@scoug.com, which redirects to his real e-mail address (I think he has either a
pacbell.net or sbcglobal.net account).

On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 15:30:38 PDT7, Harry Motin wrote:

>Could someone please forward this E-Mail message to Tony Butka for me? I don't
>have his E-Mail address. Thanks.
>
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>Tony,
>
>Below please find a copy of a message sent to me from Steve Schiffman. He
>explained how to get the Netscape mail client to sent out mail, when your mail ID
>contains an "@" symbol. Also, attached please find the correct POP and SMTP
>addresses for various SBC internet accounts. Hope this information is helpful!
>HCM
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>Harry Chris Motin wrote:
>>
>> Tom Brown wrote:
>>
>> > Check very carefully for typos in Preferences > Mail & Newsgroups > Mail
>> > Servers ..., It CAN'T be wrong", but the darn server is really picky! :-)
>>
>> OK! I often say that, too, only to find out later that it was me!
>> However, NOW it's NOT ME! Trust me on this one! Using the iptrace and
>> ipformat facilities I can see what Netscape is doing. This is what's
>> happening:
>>
>> 1. My user ID has an "@" symbol in it
>>
>> 2. Netscape, however, truncates my user ID at the "@" and sends out
>> only the first portion to the sbcglobal.net Incoming E-Mail server
>
>Replace the @ with a % in the location where your userid is defined.
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>> 3. It sends out the correct password
>>
>> 4. The server of course responds that the password/ID is wrong
>
>Steve Schiffman
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