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Date:	Tue, 18 Mar 2003 05:07:53 PST8
From:	Harry Chris Motin <hmotin@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OS/2 Mail Clients

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Steve Schiffman wrote:

> Replace the @ with a % in the location where your userid is defined.

Thanks Steve. That did the trick! Now I can send and receive from
Netscape 4.61 as well as MR/2 ICE. I'm curious. Where did you learn that
trick?
HCM

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Steve Schiffman wrote:
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> If you are responding to someone asking for help who
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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.
>
> > 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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