"Cannot resolve SMTP host name"

[Simon Bowring]

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

>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.

pop3.attglobal.net works here (that is the domain look-up works 
fine, but PMMAIL fails to log-on, because I made up the user and password).

  Mon, 13 Mar 00 14:43:12 ==> -ERR UserID or Password supplied for "simon" 
is incorrect. ; This is the error that resulted from the PASS command

I am running PMMail/2 2.10.1999

In my experience, it is much more likely that your DNS is screwed,
than PMMail, which I have used on a number of different ISPs and
mail servers without problems.

If you have multiple DNS servers configured, disable all but one,
since conflicting info from different servers can make (for example)
every other connection fail!

Regards

Simon Bowring