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   Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo to Jose   
   Re: can't change SMTP server   
   25 Oct 07 09:35:40   
   
   From: peter.potamus.the.purple.hippo@gmail.com   
      
   Jose wrote:   
   >>> I would like to change my SMTP server from smtp.aol.com to s   
   tp.att.yahoo.com  After going to edit...mail and newsgroup account settings   
   and changing the outgoing SMTP server, and clicking OK, when I attempt to send   
   Email, it still attempts to    
   connect to smtp.aol.com and fails.   
   >> don't edit the current one, instead, create a New one.  Then go into each   
   account and make the change there.   
   >   
   > It still doesn't work (or I'm not doing it right).   
   >   
   > Netscape 7.2, Windows 98   
   >   
   > I went into account settings, down to Outgoing Server, and created a new   
   > outgoing server, made it the default, and deleted the old one.  There is   
   > no place (that I can find) in "each (Email) account" to select the   
   > outgoing server.  Even with the aol.com outgoing server deleted from the   
   > outgoing server list, Email still tries to use it (and fails).   
   >   
   > Jose   
      
   did you make it the default?   
      
   also, under each account name, on the bottom right, it   
   should be a selection for smpt servers.   
      
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