"Cannot resolve SMTP host name"

[Norm]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 07:05:25 -0600 (CST), John Thompson wrote:

>>>How could it be a that I can connect to the SMTP server via Outlook Express but not via 
>>>PMMail? 
>
>>     Are you *ABSOLUTELY* sure you've got the *EXACT* same settings in
>>both Outlook and PMMail???
>
>PMMAIL seems to have some <ahem> "idiosyncracies" in hostname lookups, at
>least in the OS/2 version.  I have been unable to receive via
>pop3.attglobal.net using PMMAIL for well over a year, but when I
>substitute the IP address 32.97.166.3 it works fine.  Other mail programs
>do not have this problem so I am quite sure it is a PMMAIL bug.


     Hmmmm...I've never experienced that particular bug myself.  I'm
not saying it doesn't exist, just that I've never seen nor heard of it
before now.

--
 ...Cheers,

 ...Norm

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