Hoping someone can help with this....

Even though I specify the smtp servers I want to use for outgoing email all my
messages get routed directly through AOL (via smtp-loh03.proxy.aol.com) when
I'm on dialup.

I first noticed this was happening when I got bounces c/o AOL Postmaster on
email that should have gone through my hosting company's server....

This is a bit of a problem, it's not only slow to send, but AOL's mail servers
have a habit of getting blacklisted.

Last I new AOL used a proprietary mail set-up and didn't even have an smtp
server.... Now everything is being sucked into it (in the good old days AOhell
limited itself to blackholing incoming email sent to it's customers from the
internet...).

Even the "X-Apparently-From:" field features my AOL screenname on all my email,
although I suppose this is to be expected if it's going through their mail
server. Identical problem with Opera's email app. Perhaps I should go back to
using Eudora or Express? I'd prefer not to have to do that, although I don't
remember them having this problem before.