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DNS Numbers (modified 0 times) wildcard Profile Hi, I'm setting up one of the white, emessage, or more open Mailstations, but I'm only getting it to work on one of my accounts, so I'm looking for tips. The machine seems to be working properly on a pacbell account normal dialup account, but not on my main ISP account. I'm thinking the problem is the DNS settings, becuase while I understand all the other setting, DNS numbers are mysterious to me. I got the DNS number for my pacbell dialup account at this web page, http://wwwnet.princeton.edu/tools/dnslookup.html Maybe the DNS lookup is the problem because my other email account on a different ISP has not been working. Any tips? Thanks 03-03-2001 15:24:17

RE:DNS Numbers (modified 0 times) TMR0 Profile Each ISP uses different DNS numbers. In other words, when you change the phone number to dial a different ISP, you should change the DNS numbers. Although your POP email settings are separate, ISPs typically require you to be connected via their dialup number in order to SEND email using their mailserver. It has also been my experience that you can receive email regardless of your connection. My "eMessage" from Ubid has shipped ($19) and I will followup once I receive it. 03-08-2001 06:25:32

RE:DNS Numbers (modified 0 times) TMR0 Profile I received my eMessage today and set it up to use my ISP's email account for send and recieve. I could not get it to work, even receive only, from other accounts. My ISP, as many do, blocks access to smtp mail service for sending. This causes an error on the emessage and it apparently does not attempt to retrieve mail after the error. As far as I could determine, the eMessage always sends mail first, even if the "Get Mail" button is pressed. 03-10-2001 19:43:35

RE:DNS Numbers (modified 0 times) wildcard Profile Hi, Make sure that you are using the proper DSN number for your ISP. My emessage works fine on the Pacific Bell account work account. It also works by dialing into either the Pacbell ISP, or my wife's university ISP account and from their going out and send mail and receive mail from a yahoo email account. I am still having trouble with one ISP. I think the problem there is that ISP has been taken over twice and is now owned by earthl*nk. I think they have some kind of weird forwarding going on because my login is always slow on that account and the login "script" screen has been showing two entries for verifing my password. Keep trying with other setup options. 03-11-2001 21:10:00

RE:DNS Numbers (modified 0 times) DubaDiver Profile An easy way to determine your ISP's DNS Numbers is to log onto your ISP on a Windows based machine and from the MSDOS Prompt type "ipconfig /all". You'll get a screen listing (among other things) the currently used primary and alternate DNS. 03-23-2001 02:08:29

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