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Hi Ambros,
Is the person dialing in directly or connecting from another service?
If coming in from another service, they need to use the SMTP domain rather
than chebucto.ca, for example, if they're using Eastlink, they need to
put mail.eastlink.ca in the SMTP section.
CCN Help
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On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Ambros Prechtl wrote:
> After all sorts of initial problems, I finally got her set up.
> New internal modem dials into CCN. Firefox works, no problem.
>
> But -- when I tried to send a message from Thunderbird, I got the
> folliwing error message:
>
> /* Mail server sent an incorrect reading [or was it "greeting"?].
> Relay not permitted from this server.*/
>
> Any idea, anyone, what this is trying to tell me? Any idea what I
> may be doing wrong?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Waterbuf, alias Ambros
>
> PS: Andrew, next time you sign up a new user, please write down the USERID
> too,
> not only the dial-in password. This female genius had no idea what her ID
> was. I tried
> all sorts of possibilities --
>
> Her first and last name
> Her first name only
> Her last name only
> First letter of first name ... dot ... last name
> First-letter-of-first-namelast-name [no dot]
> and several more... eventually I hit the right combination.
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