I went back to freeside, I went back to the beginning, and I decided to try using Mason instead of Apache::ASP, hey, it can;t be any worse.

I went through, set it all up again, and what do you know! it appears to work! When I put configuration settings in, it stores them, they don't just disappear!

The phone rang, it's the woman who's network I support. Earlier I had received an email from her detailing how she still didn't have her domain name working, that I configured last week. I checked, and it appears that mail.herdomain is not defined, but www.herdomain is.

I had earlier vnced in, changed the settings, and it appeared to work, mail came in. I didn't test outgoing however.

I went through all the settings with here, and noticed something a bit strange, when we changed the outgoing mail server settings, it seemed to ignore them, even after restarting mozilla and rebooting the computer.

I then found something about an advanced button on the outgoing server settings tab, we went in there, and there was a whole bunch of junk in there, the same mail servers listed about 6 times each, after they were all removed, there were then blank lines in the box, so we removed those too.

I t was still trying to use the wrong outgoing server, one that wasn't even specified anymore. Hmm.

After half an hour of mucking around, I decided to install thunderbird instead, started downloading it, 11mb, this will take a while. While I waited, I started googling, a couple of minutes later I found a webpage detailing a known bug in this version of mozilla, it edits the wrong mail server entries.

I found the prefs.js file, opened it in a text editor.. what do you know, all the incoming mail server definitions had their outgoing to set to like smpt3/5 etc, when there was only a single smtp1 setting defined. That's where the "%S" is coming from I'll bet.

I changed all the dodgy references to smtp servers to 1, configured the single smtp definition properly, and restarted it all.

Oh look, it works. Groovy.

Now I can go back to freeside, I think I'm getting somewhere now.