[email protected] wrote:
I keep meaning to ask this but forget when I get home.
I have had a problem with many/most non-home router
connections with the outgoing mail failing.
I get a message saying that the connection to the
smtp server failed.
What setting might be interfering with this, please?
Some ISPs require you to use their own SMTP servers whenever you use
their connection. So if you normally send through smtp.mywebsite.com and
try that when you're on the road connecting through stupidisp.com,
stupidisp.com will block access to smtp.mywebsite.com. To my mind, it's
stupid of them to insist that you use their resources when you would
rather use someone else's, but whatever.
What I've done on my laptop is set up another SMTP server in my mail and
news account settings, and when (for example) connecting through
Verizon, who are not my normal ISP, I make that my default SMTP server
(the setup for that SMTP server has to include a Verizon username and
password). But when I'm at a location where the ISP doesn't care, I go
on using the SMTP server I would normally use.
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--
Paul B. Gallagher
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