Re: AOL mail on Evolution - Help!

"Kelly J. Morris" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.ximian.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 11:08, [email protected] wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 06:31, guenther wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 04:05, Kelly J. Morris wrote:
> > > Now that AOL is using IMAP servers, I can use Evolution to read and send
> > > mail with my AOL account. No problem with receiving, but sending
> > > requires that I change the SMTP port number to 587. Where & how do I do
> > > this?
> > 
> > Just add a colon and the port number to the host.
> > 
> > Tools / Settings / Mail Accounts / <account> Edit / Sending Mail
> >  Host: smtp.aol.com:587
> > 
> Guenther - Help! I tried this and got a "connection refused" error message as follows while trying to send from an AOL account:
> 
> "Error while performing operation:
> MAILFROM RESPONSE ERROR: Unknown"
> 
> So, I deleted the :587 but now I can't send mail from *any* of my accounts that use POP! I had to go into web mail to send this message. How do I re-set this?
> 
> 
> Kelly

I shut down and re-booted -- my standard response to anything and
everything ... :-)  --and my POP mail accounts are sending mail OK.

Now, back to the original question and the ":587" not working for me...

Kelly

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