@HOME and pop email question - HELP

[Andy74]

AT&T just installed @HOME cable modem service on my Windows2000 O/S, I'm trying to get it working on Mandrake 7.2. Everything is fine, except that I can't get the pop3 email to work - I can't figure out how they have set it up. The pop3 and smtp protocols are listed as 'mail' - this doesn't seem right, but it works in Windows - and I can't replicate this in LINUX. I know a lot of you have @HOME, can somebody help??? THANKS

[TechGuy]

The pop3 and smtp are not protocols. They are mail servers. They are probably called
mail.att.xxxx
or something to this effect.
What error message do you get when u try to send and recieve?

[ndelo]

The word "mail" is the alias for their mail servers. For instance, mail for my at @home resolves to femail.sdc1.sfba.home.com. The protocols numbers need to remain at 25 for SMTP and 110 for POP3. Do not change these values. Substituting them for the word"mail" will definintely infringe upon your ability to send mail. What you need to do is put the word "mail" in wherever your email client expects the fully qualified domain name or the IP address of the your @home's mail server. If you do this and have the correct @home nameservers listed in your /etc/resolv.conf, or are using DHCP, your mail should start flowing fine.

[This message has been edited by ndelo (edited 20 January 2001).]

[Andy74]

Thanks guys - how can I find out to what does teh 'mail' alias resolve to? I don't have DHCP - they've set me up with a static IP.

THANKS.

[sssadams]

the name they gave you crxxxxx-x.yyyyyyyyyy
try mail.yyyyyyyy that will work.

[klamath]

The pop3 and smtp are not protocols.

No, actually they're protocols.

The protocols numbers need to remain at 25 for SMTP and 110 for POP3

You mean port numbers? SMTP/POP don't have protocol numbers, those are for lower-level protocols like TCP or UDP.

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[ndelo]

You shouldn't need to know what mail resolves to if you are using @home's nameservers, which you probably are if you can browse the internet. However, just open up a shell and type "nslookup mail". This should give you mail's fully qualified domain name, alias and ip address. However, if you can successfully do this and get the info, you probably won't need it and will be fine just using plain old "mail".

[This message has been edited by ndelo (edited 21 January 2001).]

[BloodRed]

Ok, I'm having the same problem as Andy74. I tried using "mail" for the mail server, but I get an error saying "unknown host "mail"". I also tried doing an nslookup on mail, it accesses proxy1.scrmnt1.ca.home.com, and says that "mail" is a "Non-exsistent host/domain". Just for kicks, I tried putting proxy1.scrmnt1.ca.home.com as the mail server, it says it can't access that either. I'm assuming it's not a mail server. Am I missing something obvious?? Thanks for any help.

[rod]

I use @home. When I first tried to use mail for the servername and smpt it would not work. So......... I tried the DHCP server address, in both servername and smpt text boxes and it worked.


This may or may not work for you.

Regards,
Rod

[Tigger]

All of you that are having problems with @Home:

Make sure you have your domain entered in your /etc/resolv.conf file along with your nameservers like this:

search xxx.xxx.home.com
nameserver 11.22.33.44
nameserver 55.66.77.88

Their nameservers resolve 'mail' with the domain internally.

[BloodRed]

Originally posted by rod:
I use @home. When I first tried to use mail for the servername and smpt it would not work. So......... I tried the DHCP server address, in both servername and smpt text boxes and it worked.


This may or may not work for you.

Regards,
Rod

This worked, thanks!

[rod]

Glad it is working for you. After you use this method for a time, exactly how long I'm not sure, you can go back and just use mail. Why it works like that I don't know.

Regards,
Rod

[Mighty JD]

The way I set it up is to go into the @home configuator www/ on the web browser. This will let you login to the intranet. Then set up what is called netmail this allows you to receive your mail away from home. After doing so your mail servers will be called netmail.home.com and you can set it up that way. I use this to share the connection w/ 3 pc's over a network through a router and this is the only way that we can login because of the router, BUT it works great!!!

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