On 12/16/07 9:20 AM, robert gerard at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Using Leopard and Entourage, I have a Gmail POP account and an AOL IMAP > account. > On a recent trip, both in a motel connected by WiFi and in my daughters > home, connected via their cable modem I could receive email from both of the > about accounts, but could not send mail from them. > > Anyone know how to set up my Entourage Account preferences so that I can > both send and receive? > > Last trip I took, about a year ago, I was indeed able to both send and > receive from my computer on the road.
Many ISPs block direct access to other mail servers and require that outgoing mail go out via their own mail servers. Without knowing what your normal settings are and what ISP you're connecting through when traveling, it is impossible for us to tell you what changes to make although usually just changing the outgoing mail server to the ISPs outgoing server will do it. On the other hand, if there is no blocking, your ISP almost certainly will not accept mail from outside their network for delivery outside their network unless it is authenticated. To do otherwise makes then an "open relay" which will get them spam-blocked by many, many other ISPs. I've seen an number of problems when traveling. Some ISPs silently redirect connections to their servers. Your mail goes out normally if you're doing unauthenticated and unencrypted sends but otherwise fails. Some particularly brain-dead ISPs insist that the sender be a an account of theirs. No sending mail with the sender being on another ISP. If your ISP supports sending mail via the submission port (587), that is another solution. By default, mail is sent via the SMTP port (25) and when their is outgoing mail blocking, it's usually on port 25. As port 587 should (by standards) always require an authenticated connection, I know of no ISPs blocking port 587. But not all ISPs accept mail on the submission port. To use port 587, you need to select it under Advance Sending Options in your account setup. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonejongleux.com/ -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
