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- Path: portal.com!combdyn!lawrence
- From: lawrence@combdyn.com (Lawrence *The Dreamer* Chen)
- Subject: Re: AWEB external mailto: ???
- Message-ID: <1996Apr10.174125.566@combdyn.com>
- Organization: Combustion Dynamics Ltd.
- References: <300.6673T882T1385@slic.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 17:41:25 GMT
-
- snolan@slic.com (Steve Nolan) writes:
-
- >I'm having trouble getting the mailto: option to work. I've tried it
- >both with and without Voodoo and, while both the GUI message screen
- >and Voodoo come up just fine, when I click the send button, nothing
- >gets sent. Any hints? I've double checked the settings.
-
- Are you sure nothing is being sent?
-
- I've been playing around with the mailto: option on mine....I wasn't
- getting any replies....I found that 'hostname' is set to the name that
- corresponds to the IP address that I'm on.
-
- With AWINC its something like 'pme713.mlc.awinc.com'.....which is dynamic
- based on the IP address I got. The messages just timeout and get returned,
- of if a user logs in with SMTP it disappears or loops (I run SMTPd from
- InetUtils...so the message loops if its not for me....I redirect to
- mail.awin.com, which sends it back...and so on)
-
- I get some stranger 'hostname' with my other ISP...and a similar fiasco
- results.
-
- The problem seems none of the ISPs MX back their ports....
-
- I was going to hardcode, except I have 3 ISPs that I use....so I have
- different configurations....so I was hoping to have the AReXX file to
- have the necessary smarts to do it.
-
- In a more normal (?) case you can set "mailaddress=''" to whatever you
- want....
-
- Try sending a message to yourself to see if its working...this is what I did.
-
- What I would like to try is setting the mailto: script to work like the
- mailto: handling in ALynx....where I can specify the 'from' address. Though
- I'm not up to speed on Forms programming in HTML, yet. Also the signature
- gets two '-- 's.....because the same signature is used in my news reader
- and mail reader which don't automatically add the separator.
- --
- SNAIL: Lawrence Chen, P.Eng. VE6LKC/VE6PAQ
- Computer Engineer Phone: (403)529-2162
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