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[Don Hinkle]

Nice theory, Joy; but it doesn't make any difference; I still get that 
message even when it KNOWS it's offline.
Stubborn?
-don

On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 12:00  PM, Joy Freeman wrote:

> Assuming you're in Mac's Mail program, go to the Mailbox menu and 
> select "Go Offline" then when you're dialup is active and you're ready 
> to send, do it again and select "Go Online."
>
> Joy
>
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> On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 10:42  AM, Don Hinkle wrote:
>
>> I have a dial-up account and it makes me nervous when I'm online, 
>> even tho I figure I have about 5 hours already paid for 
>> daily...anyway, I tend to go on, get mail, then disconnect and read 
>> my messages offline.
>> And that's when I write replies and new mails too.
>> And when I click the Send icon, it goes into the Out folder, but 
>> first it pops back up on the screen with an Error message:
>>  "This message could not be delivered and will remain in your Outbox 
>> until it can be delivered.
>> The server “smtp.mac.com” can not be contacted on port 25."
>>
>> I have to click on Close this Window to get rid of it.
>>
>> How can I turn off this stupid message from appearing in the first 
>> place?