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What is "Host name" in setting up mail accounts

I can't seem to send a message. I keep getting an error message that the connection to the outgoing server failed.

My Incoming Mail Server is "pop-server.tampabay.rr.com" is set up correctly, but
My Outgoing mail is "smtp-server.tampabay.rr.com" and this asks for a "Host Name"

What do I put in for the Host name? There is no hyphen available to set this up as "smtp-server....".
It shows an example of "smtp.example.com", but I don't have anything that is "smtp.tampabay.rr.com". So what do I use?

thanks

Message was edited by: Herschel Hochman

20" IMAC G5, Mac OS X (10.4.10), 2 GHz, 1GB Ram

Posted on Sep 24, 2007 7:17 PM

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Posted on Sep 24, 2007 7:25 PM

When your typing in the smpt-server click on the icon in the lower left bottom that looks like (@123). This will take you to the alternate key board so that you can enter in the - that you are looking for.
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What is "Host name" in setting up mail accounts

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