[mso] Re: AOL & SMTP (was Outlook Folder Limits (reposting))
- From: "Troy" <testtroy@xxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 22:19:25 -0600
Do you happen to remember the server info for AOL's SMTP server?
Troy
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Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:04 PM
Subject: [mso] Re: AOL & SMTP (was Outlook Folder Limits (reposting))
>
> <<AOL does not offer SMTP service, and so can't be used with third party
> (n=on AOL) software.>>
>
> True, but I think it can be made to work. For about a year (when my only
> ISP was AOL), I forwarded mail to and from customers via Yahoo!Mail's free
> forwarding service, with copies going to my AOL mailbox. When Yahoo!Mail
> stopped being free, I purchased a domain and began using a mailbox at
> Pair.com for the forwarding. Once, when the copies stopped arriving at
AOL,
> I suspected a problem at Pair. After a couple dozen emails with Pair's
tech
> support, I was informed that AOL has a "secret" SMTP server(s?), and that
it
> was AOL who had been forwarding my mail for all those months (the Pair
tech
> said one of his associates had spoken directly to someone "in the know" at
> AOL who confirmed this hush-hush SMTP setup). I had never actually
checked
> my Yahoo or Pair mailboxes for any record of the months of forwarding
> service I had assumed was taking place. As it turned out, not a single
> piece of this forwarded mail had arrived at/been processed by Pair's email
> server (who knows about Yahoo??). At any rate, if someone uses a non-AOL
> forwarding address, I think it's possible to use Outlook and simply get
> copies at AOL.
> Ess
>
> .
>
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