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Date:	Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:55:21 PST8
From:	Steve Schiffman <schiffman@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OS/2 Mail Clients

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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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