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Fossil
■ Here you can choose whether to use the internal communications
routines or use the FOSSIL driver instead. If you have problems
with one or the other please try the opposite one. Please note
that for FOSSIL mode you will need a FOSSIL driver loaded.
Port
■ This is your modem communications port number. For example if
your modem is on COM2 then enter 2 for your port number.
Address
■ This is the hex address of your comport. The standard address
values for the first four comports are COM1 = 03F8, COM2 = 02F8,
COM3 = 03E8, and COM4 = 02E8
IRQ
■ This is the IRQ of your comport. The standard IRQ values for the
first four comports are COM1 = 4, COM2 = 3, COM3 = 4, and COM4 = 3
Baud
■ This is the baud rate that your modem talks to your computer
at which is also known as the locked baud rate or DTE. Typically
values are 19200, 38400 or 57600. For those normally locking at
115200 please select 57600.
Vector
■ This is the packet vector you wish to use. Normally you can leave
this as 60, however if it says that vector 60 is not available you
can experiment with 61, 62 or some other values.
Debug
■ If you wish to see each line being sent and received to your
provider then select yes otherwise select no.
Ip
■ This is your IP address. If this value changes constantly then
enter 0.0.0.0
Network mask
■ This is your network mask. The value of 0.0.0.0 works for most
implementations. If you have problems such as "Cannot resolve
POP3 hostname" then try using 255.255.255.0 for the value.
Name servers
■ You can specify the addresses of up to 3 name servers. If you
do not know what these values should be then please contact your
Internet provider for the right addresses.
SMTP server name
■ This is the name of your Internet provider's SMTP mail server.
Quite often this is the main domain name of your provider, or
something like "mailhost.theirsite.com", or "mail.theirsite.com"
If in doubt about this, or any other settings, please ask your
Internet provider.
POP3 server name
■ This is the name of your Internet provider's POP3 mail server.
Quite often this is the same as the SMTP server name.
POP3 mailbox
■ This is the name of your mailbox. Your mailbox name is usually
the same as your user name. Please note that this is not your
full email address, for example if your email address is...
yourname@somesite.com
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...then yourname will probably be your POP3 mailbox name.
This is the same name that you will have in your Netscape
or Internet Mail/News POP3 user name.
POP3 password
■ This is the password to access your mailbox. This is the
same password that you would enter into Netscape or Eudora
as your email password.
Login name
■ This is your login name and will be used if you require
PAP authentication.
Login password
■ This is your login password and will be used if you require
PAP authentication.
Phone number
■ This is the number you must dial into for the Internet.
Dial attempts
■ This is the number of attempts to retry your login and logout
scripts if they fail.
Dial waitout
■ This is the number of seconds to wait between dialing retries.
Socket timeout
■ This is the number of seconds to wait for an established socket
after a connection request. The default value of 30 should
suffice for most systems. If you have a very slow link, you may
increase this value as required.
Data timeout
■ This is the number of seconds to wait for between expected
data responses. The default value of two minutes (120 seconds)
should suffice for most systems. If you have a very slow link,
you may increase this value as required.