what is the 'host' for SMTP?
John Salerno
johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com
Wed May 3 12:10:16 EDT 2006
Steve R. Hastings wrote:
> Take a look at your email client. Find where it specifies the server for
> outgoing mail. Use whatever it says there.
>
> For example, I am a customer of blarg.net; I am therefore permitted to use
> mail.blarg.net, which has a mail server running on it. If your ISP is
> example.com, you probably will be using one of these:
>
> mail.example.com
> smtp.example.com
Thanks for all the information. Very helpful. But I'm still a little
confused, because it seems like that's not enough information. If all I
put in is, for example, smtp.gmail.com, how is that directed to my own
email address? Do I still need to include other, more specific (i.e.
personal) information elsewhere?
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