Can receive mail but cannot send

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Jeffrey Cronen

Hi
I travel a lot and have a constant problem with not being able to send mail.
It receives fine but cannot send. Today in a hotel in Kansas city I was
pleased to find Wayport high speed access in the hotel. On a whim I changed
the outgoing address to smtp.wayport.com and off my mail went. But my
normal smtp address will not work when I'm on the road (mail.optonline.net)
although that works fine when I'm home on my normal cable connection.

Any ideas what I could change this setting to that might work everywhere??

Thanks
Jeff
 
B

Barry N. Wainwright

Hi
I travel a lot and have a constant problem with not being able to send mail.
It receives fine but cannot send. Today in a hotel in Kansas city I was
pleased to find Wayport high speed access in the hotel. On a whim I changed
the outgoing address to smtp.wayport.com and off my mail went. But my
normal smtp address will not work when I'm on the road (mail.optonline.net)
although that works fine when I'm home on my normal cable connection.

Any ideas what I could change this setting to that might work everywhere??

Thanks
Jeff
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Unfortunately, many ISPs do not allow access to their smtp servers unless
you are physically logged into their network system.

Your best bet is to ask the ISP support line if they have 'authenticated
SMTP Servers' available for you to send mail when away from home.

--
Barry Wainwright
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K

Keith Esau

Any ideas what I could change this setting to that might work everywhere??
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The SMTP setting should be provided now by your email provider unless they
are not 'up with the times.' A few years ago this was a real hassle as SMTP
was by location instead of email account, but all the _good_ ISPs have
gotten on board with it.

Keith Esau
[email protected]
 
W

William M. Smith

Unfortunately, many ISPs do not allow access to their smtp servers unless
you are physically logged into their network system.

Your best bet is to ask the ISP support line if they have 'authenticated
SMTP Servers' available for you to send mail when away from home.
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Also, if you're using Mac OS X and willing to get your hands just a little
dirty in Unix, Corentin Cras-M´neur has posted a tip in this newsgroup on
how to turn your own machine into an SMTP server.

This is a great idea for traveling folks!

Search this newsgroup for his tip from Oct. 24 with [TIP] in the subject
line.

Hope this helps! bill
 
G

Gnarlodious

Entity William M. Smith spoke thus:
Also, if you're using Mac OS X and willing to get your hands just a little
dirty in Unix, Corentin Cras-M´neur has posted a tip in this newsgroup on
how to turn your own machine into an SMTP server.

This is a great idea for traveling folks!
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That would be me. But will you explain further? I understand this
configuration would allow me to send emails through ANY ISP regardless of
whether I have an account there. Is this right, or is it limited to MS
Exchange networks?

-- Gnarlie
http://www.Gnarlodious.com/Cogent/Cogent.html
 
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