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Re: Post seems down...

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From: Robert Mortimer
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 00:00
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Previously malcolm@muir-et2.staff.demon.net (Malcolm Muir) said:
>Stephen M Baines (Stephen@vollans.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>> In article <847956130snz@smof.demon.co.uk>
>>            tim@smof.demon.co.uk "Tim Illingworth" writes:
>> > Setting "sm ga post.demon.co.uk" causes KA9Q 2.16d to hang (at least
>> > here).
>> > Where is the fixed version of this Demon-supported software?
>> Malcolm wrote to me (I had the same problem) and said that it should 
>> work if the sm ga line comes after the nameserver definitions. That 
>> has worked for mine.
>Thinking about this, a better place is probably after the dialer
>initiation, with the inline mode set.

I'd also suggest, after having this happen to me a few time,
changing the line to read:

$nodial smtp gateway post.demon.co.uk

otherwise if you go to run net.exe without dialling
it will hang when it tries to resolve post,
which if you run net.exe off line a lot can be very annoying.

--
RobertM
Demon Internet Ltd
         "Trust the computer, the computer is your fiend"
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From: robm@demon.net (Robert Mortimer)
Subject: Re: Post seems down...
Date: 1996/11/21
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