net switching SMTP problem

[Bruce J. Weiers]

I have a notebook, which I carry back and forth to the office, where it
is on the network in a peer-to-peer relationship. (Notebook runs XP
Home and does not sign on to a domain.)

I use a commericial product to handle switching between networks (Mobile
Net Switch) and it does a credible job with changing mapped drivers,
default printers, ip addressing, etc.

The one place it falls down is in switching SMTP servers. It has an
ability to do this, based on the idea of creating a variable,
DynamicSMTP, which sits in Outlook accounts as the SMTP server, and then
changing the value of this variable. (I am not sure, because I don't
have the notebook in front of me, but I think the variable is a HOSTS
entry.)

The downside is that my SMTP server at the office requires an
authenticating username and password. (Not Secure Password
Authentication, though). I suspect my cable internet provider will
eventually require the same thing, though with a different username and
password. (I use the same third party POP3 server for retrieving
incoming mail -- it has no relationship to either SMTP server.)

Anyway, when I start Outlook 2000 and try to send an e-mail, it will sit
there waiting for me to enter a username and password. This would be
alright, except it doesn't actually show me a dialog box; I have to
click on the outgoing mail activity and ask to see "details".

Does anyone here have any bright ideas about how I could "automate"
switching SMTP servers, SMTP username and password.

 

[Guest]

you can do your task with a WSH script which modify the registry key or file that contains the settings.

 

[Bruce J. Weiers]

Does that include the name and password, passed to the SMTP server, do
you think?

I will fumble about and try to find the registry keys.

I see this one:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\OMI Account
Manager\Accounts\00000001]
"SMTP Use Sicily"=dword:00000002

which I translate as, requires SMTP username and password.

But, I don't think I know how to say what the username and password (for
the SMTP server) should be.

you can do your task with a WSH script which modify the registry key

or file that contains the settings.