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Posted on 07-Feb-2000 07:47 GMT by Christian Kemp1 comments
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John-Mark writes: If you use branded @home service (excite/Cox) with your Amiga you may have had trouble accessing their nntp (news) and smtp/POP3 (mail) servers due to a proprietary addressing scheme. This evening I found an easy way to access their nntp and mail servers IP address! Many Amiga owners who use branded @home service (excite/Cox) with their PCs also have their Amigas hooked up to their cablemodem. Since @home uses some weird way of assigning their mail and news servers names like "mail" and "news" in PC programs, many Amiga programs will not work properly. (It's hard to use mNews or YAM when you can't assign them servers!) While diagnosing a problem with my home network this evening, I came across a way to find the address of my @home news server! Here's how:
  1. On a PC, go to the @home folder (usually on the C drive) and open it. (You can use Start!/Find... to locate the folder if you don't know where else to look.)
  2. Open the Tools folder and open the file called "netdiag".
  3. Click on the "Trace Route" tab. Now click on "Trace". To find your SMTP/POP3 server, first try calling @home and using whatever address is suggested by customer support. Don't worry, most of them actually *respect* Amiga users (!) and are quite willing to help. If that doesn't work, try using "mailhost.home.com" or following the instructions above replacing the word "news" in step 4 with "mail". (This also works for the "www" default @home homepage if you like the content and want to use it as your Amiga's browser start-page. Just use "www" in step 4 in place of "news" or "mail" and be prepared to accept some cookies!)

    As a side note: I'm sure there are Amiga trace-route programs that will do the same thing as the @home netdiag program. You can always search aminet for a traceroute utility, but again, I don't know if it will recognize how to resolve the "news", "mail", or "www" designations used by @home.

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