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Date:      Thu, 04 Feb 1999 21:45:05 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        jim@corp.au.triax.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape Communicator 4.5, username? 
Message-ID:  <199902050345.VAA74203@nospam.hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from Jim Mock <jim@corp.au.triax.com>  of "Thu, 04 Feb 1999 12:53:46 %2B1100." <19990204125346.A1786@corp.au.triax.com> 

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Jim Mock writes:
> On Wed, 03 Feb 1999 at 19:42:08 -0600, David Kelly wrote:
[...]
> > Now the dumb Communicator 4.5 pops up a window every few minutes 
> > informing me,
> > 
> > 	Netscape is unable to use the mail server because 
> > 	you have not provide a username. Please provide 
> > 	one in the preferences and try again
> > 
> > I don't have any idea what they are talking about as most ever box
> > is filled under Edit->Preferences->Mail & Newsgroups->Identity. And
> > the same for Mail Servers where localhost is listed.
> > 
> > Tried a clean ~/.netscape directory. Didn't do any good.
> > 
> > Is it time to revert to the prior version?
> >
> 
> Nope.  All you need to do is the following..
> 
> Edit -> Preferences -> Mail & Newsgroups -> Mail Servers
> 
> Click the host in the Incoming Mail Servers box, then edit.  Add your
> username for the mail server in there, and it should shut it up =)

I don't receive mail with Netscape, only occasionally send mail.

"It *should* shut it up." ??? Outgoing mail server user name was one of 
the first things I filled in.

Everything in the Preferences->Mail Servers dialog box was filled. By
default the "Incoming Mail Servers" list contained, "pop". And just now
I deleted it. Maybe that is the solution? Am offline at the moment so 
its hard to say if removing POP fixed it. But so far so good!

"Outgoing mail (SMTP) server:" is localhost
"Outgoing mail server user name" is dkelly, which still produced the 
error messages. As did leaving this field blank.

SSL is "never"

Local mail directory is /home/dkelly/nsmail



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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
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