R.K.Aa. wrote: > More likely the ISP is set up to not accept mail sent from "foreign" > IP's. Denying mail-relaying is a sensible and very common security > measurement to avoid mail relay exploits. Because of this, one should > normally use the outgoing mailserver of the ISP one is connected to at > the time mail is sent. > > > K. I was having a serious number of "relay" error messages for a while. Turns out my ISP made some server changes and failed to notify their users, well, me anyway :), that an email account setting had to be changed in the browser. Haven't had a problem since. Anybody that's getting relay errors should contact their ISP to find out what their particular deal is. > > Udo Richter wrote: > >> DvB wrote: >> >>>I set up an extra pop3 account under mail/news and set it up so that it >>>would send mail through its own smtp server instead of the default. I >>>also checked the 'use name and password" box. >>> >>>Now whenever I try to send mail with that account, I get the message: >>> >>>"An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.7.1 >>><to-address>... Relaying denied. IP name lookup failed [xxx.xx.xxx.xxx]. >>>Please check the message recipient and try again." >>> >> >> This might be bug 72761, one of my bugs, see >> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72761 >> >> Not that it got much attention by now... >> >> >> > >
