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SMTP server

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 8:38 am
by mesz
Dear All,
Please forgive me!
I have come here to ask a non PHP question because I have always found the people here to be the most IT savvy ( and I work in a software development office! )
However I have a moronic question.
If someone is using Microsoft Outlook Express as an email client and needs to reconfigure this to point to a new POP3 mailbox, how do they know what their SMTP server is if they go through a local network and are completely IT illiterate?
( for various reasons I am 400 hundred miles from the office in question and have no telephone access to the network administrators. )

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 9:19 am
by twigletmac
Do they have another account set up that they could crib that info from?

Mac

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 9:23 am
by mesz
believe me...I hope so...I cannot talk to anyone by phone or email, so trips to the phonebox and fax machine are delaying the process somewhat!
I really was hoping for a miracle cure like a ... nominet list...or global ipconfig type command...pure fantasy I know....but I expect great things from this site!

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 11:03 am
by brewmiser
Can you give us a little more....I don't quite understand the question.

A local network should not have any effect on this unless they are behind a firewall that would limit this.

Need more info! :wink:

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 11:16 am
by mesz
Cheers for looking into this brewmiser - it is alright though, I have found the outgoing server name.
There was nothing complex about the question, no tricks, just me not being able to get to the computer to look up what I needed.