Please note: These servers are subject to change. Contact your ISP for the most current information.

If your ISP is not listed above, you will have to contact them directly. Ask specifically, What is the name of your SMTP server that I should use?

When this article was first written, March 2000, AOL didn't provide SMTP service, so people using AOL dialins had to either use the AOL email program or Webmail when they dialed in via AOL.

As of AOL version 6.0, AOL seems to have solved this problem in a particularly ingenious way. It doesn't matter what SMTP server you have your email program set to use; while you're dialed in using AOL, all SMTP requests are answered by AOL's own SMTP server.

So people using AOL 6.0 are no longer "out of luck", they're actually pretty lucky. They can set Eudora (or whatever other email program they use) up to use one of the Stanford SMTP servers, such as smtpserv1.cc.Stanford.edu, which will work while they're on campus or using a dialin line, and not change anything when they're dialing in using AOL.

We don't know at this time whether this works in earlier versions of AOL.

Another answer, and one that you might find to be a lot easier, is to use Webmail when you're "off-campus". Webmail runs on an on-campus machine, so it will always work, no matter how you're connected to the Internet.