JJ said:
I use XP&SP2, Firefox 1.5, And Copper.net as my ISP. I just bought a HP PSC
1400 printer and everytime I scan to send by email it goes to OUTLOOK and
I
don't use that. I use Copper.net email. It tells me that I am not set up
right . Please someone tell me what I need to do for all my scans to go to
copper.net email. Im lost and thank you all for the help. I am a NEWBE to
PCs.JJ
Copper.net is your ISP as you said. That has nothing to do with having to
use *some* application that understands the SMTP protocol to send messages
to a mail server (whether operated by your ISP or someone else). You will
need some e-mail client to connect to whatever mail host you use for e-mail
so that traffic can be sent between your host and theirs. Scanning to send
via e-mail means you must have an e-mail program to which the scanner can
send its output. The scanner is not an e-mail client. The scanning
software is not an e-mail client. A web browser is not an e-mail client
(you are connecting to a web server to use a webmail interface but the
browser is not itself an e-mail client). The e-mail client is the e-mail
client.
You say that you don't have Outlook. Okay, so what e-mail program(s) DO you
have? Have you gone under Internet Options -> Programs to pick one? If
your e-mail provider does not provide an SMTP server to which an e-mail
program can connect, your scanner cannot send its data through the e-mail
client because it doesn't have anything to connect to. Maybe you are using
Exchange as your mail server which means you need to define an Exchange
account in your e-mail program. If all you have is an HTTPmail account
(using a webmail interface through a browser) then your scanner has now way
to send to it (there are exceptions, such as freebie Yahoo HTTPmail accounts
where you can use YahooPOPs to connect an SMTP-compliant e-mail program to
the HTTPmail Yahoo Mail account).
It took some digging but eventually I found their instructions for setting
up Outlook and Outlook Express. They do provide POP3 and SMTP mail hosts,
so define an account in Outlook, Outlook Express, or whatever e-mail program
you have installed to connect to their mail hosts. The scanner doesn't send
e-mail. It sends traffic to your e-mail program.
