How do I check email over a home network?

[Gutter Ball]

Got my home network setup and now none of my clients can get their @Home e-mail using Netscape messenger. I'm pretty sure I have to change the mail server to something other than POP in preferences...but I can't figure out what. The server can still check e-mail though. Any ideas? Server is running Win98SE and all clients are running ME. Thanks!

[wizofid]

Sorry but I have only used Outlook Express, From playing with it there is an accounts tab that you can add email accounts with passwords and the like. I have three machines with the same login to the ISP - but separate email accounts, each machine has a default email and some have added accounts depending on what I need to do, each machine locks on and downloads its mail and when I send mail to somewhere like Netaddress and open the details tab you can see the log of the machine that sent it.
The laptop has four email accounts configured on it so I can check things while on the road. One account is set to default and the others just run and check pick mail and shut down.

Try looking for an accounts tab and open an account on each machine - it should configure to use your default dial up connection - and then log-in to your email account after that.

Here's hoping that its similar to OE5.
wiz

[This message has been edited by wizofid (edited 01-30-2001).]

[bertbell2]

My cable system was just converted to @home and I had similar problem. I use an old machine running Linux as a firewall/router. I can boot that machine in Win95 and I let ATT@home modify it's network properties. They set the domain in the TCP/IP Properties to somename related to your area. Mine is something like 'palto2.sfbay.home.com'. I am at work and cannot check it.

Once I set the internal Win98 machines domain to be what they had assigned using only mail (as they specified for my cable system) as my smtp and pop3 server worked. I also used the fully qualified domain name mail.palto2.sfbay.home.com in the POP3 and SMTP settings and they worked also.

Hope this helps.

[DVNT1]

bertbell2 is on the right track. your problem sounds like the search domain isn't the same for the LAN as it is for the PC with the WAN connection.
Therefore you need to specify the domain name with the server name (POP)

On your PC with the working email software, run WINIPCFG and look at your host name at the top. You should recognize your computer name at the beginning, so take the remaining domain name (like sfbay.home.com in bertbell2's comment, and append it to the POP name. So you would have POP.sfbay.home.com for your email server name.

Hope this helps!

[Gutter Ball]

Thanks y'all! That is exactly what I had to do! Just had to use the full mail server name instead of just "mail" and all is well now http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif