Not real familiar with the technicalities of the internet here. Unfortunately, I'm working on an app that performs email right out of Access. The app requires specifying the SMTP server you're connecting to, and I have a pretty good conceptual idea of what that's all about, but I'm having a hard time with the nuts and bolts of it.
My question is this: If I'm on a home cable modem through say, att.net, but do my email through hotmal or aol, then which is the actual server being used? Would my app specify the primary ISP as the mail server (e.g., mail.att.net)? I wouldn't use hotmail or aol as the SMTP server, right? You get an email account with the ISP service, but I don't use it as I've had hotmail and AOL forever.
My question is this: If I'm on a home cable modem through say, att.net, but do my email through hotmal or aol, then which is the actual server being used? Would my app specify the primary ISP as the mail server (e.g., mail.att.net)? I wouldn't use hotmail or aol as the SMTP server, right? You get an email account with the ISP service, but I don't use it as I've had hotmail and AOL forever.
