A discussion with someone prompted me to look in my router log today,
(perhaps for the first time in 8 years ) and I tried to email the log
to myself. This gave rise to 3 questions.


A) The time that the log showed for sending the email was 4 minutes
later than the time on the computer clock (which I verified with a
satellite clock). That is, that time had not arrived yet.

An hour later I did something and the log time was 11 minutes later
than reality. And several hours later, the lot time was, I think, 16
minutes later. Is there some way I can use this feature to live
longer? Or twice? If not, what does it mean?


B) I tried to email the log to myself. The field SMTP Server / IP
Address had to be filled in, so I used cmd / ping to get my IP address
and Sent it, but never got it. I added the smtp server,
smtp.verizon.net, but there wasn't enough space in the box to include
that and the IP!!! I was one space short so I omitted the space
between the two values, sent it, and of course I never got it.

In all these tries I had my valid, full address in
the other box, called Email Address.

What am I doing wrong? It's the wrong IP address, isn't it?

I have a gmail account and the word gmail is shorter than the word
verizon, so that would fit but I have even less idea what IP goes with
the gmail smtp server, and surely that's not the remedy anyhow.


C) Later I sent an email from my laptop, wirelessly, and the log entry
says "SMTP: sending mail fail". Fail, even though it was sent
successfully.

It's a D-Link AirPlus G, 11 years old. Could that be the cause of
any of these things.

Thanks.