Replying from remote location

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j_craig

Having a crazy time with Entourage in that I can't reply to emails, or
send emails from any location other than at home. Current error message
is 17099. Other time it states "not authorized". Any help is much
appreciated.

JC
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Having a crazy time with Entourage in that I can't reply to emails, or
send emails from any location other than at home. Current error message
is 17099. Other time it states "not authorized". Any help is much
appreciated.
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Most probably because you need to specify the SMTP server for the remote
locations. Your home SMTP server does not relay...
You can either use the SMTP from the network you connect to in your
Account settings, or use Postfix to use your own Mac as your SMTP
server.
Postfix can be activated manually, through a few Terminal tricks r you
can use the application MailServe (shareware) to do it for you.
http://cortig.free.fr/wordpress/?p=33

Corentin
 
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Eric Tiffany

Yeah, I was going to mention Postfix as another alternative, but many big
companies and ISPs won't accept email from a sender without a valid MX
record in DNS. So if you are sending from some random name/address at a
remote network, you wouldn't be able to send to people at AOL.

And you wouldn't even know that your mail is being rejected in many cases,
because most mail servers just silently drop mail from "invalid" servers.

Basically, if you are running Postfix and you don't have a valid MX record
pointing to your IP address, you look a lot like a spammer or a
virus-compromised PC.

ET
 
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