Did you try your ISP with both non-SSL and SSL settings (with the password) as well. Normally it's pretty good but yeh, some places do seem to block it.
The other thing that you can use if travelling is smtp2go. Though its a paid service it works pretty much everywhere and you just pay while away then stop paying on return. I've had a few clients use it a bit and it worked every time. Myself I just use password authentication but then I don't travel away. (We worked out the other day my last holiday was 10 years ago lol). Think I might plan a NZ trip for next year 😊 You can read more of smtp2go here - http://www.smtp2go.com/ Hope that helps some as well. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 5 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <danielATmacwizardryDOTcomDOTau> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Apple** On 20/05/2013, at 4:33 PM, k...@kgweb.org.au wrote: > Hi, > > On 15/05/2013, at 3:47 PM, Peter Faulks <peterfau...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > > Using a Mac in Europe…..[lots of useful information about connecting in > Europe] > > We are currently travelling in Japan and have had a totally different > experience. In Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan WiFi is commonly available > in coffee shops as well as hotels, and many hotels provide LAN to the > rooms. It is all free of charge. The only additional equipment we've had > to buy is a USB to LAN converter, because we're travelling with a Mac Air, > which has no ethernet port, and some hotels only provide LAN, not WiFi. > > Even where we've had no obvious connection in our room, when we ask at the > desk they provide a modem and cables and set us up in the lobby. Again, no > charge. > > The only other thing to make sure you have working correctly before you > leave home is your SMTP settings. We were unable to use our ISP (even with > password authentication) and assumed we would use gmail, but Google > decided that we failed their security checks because we were running from > a different machine and network from that used to establish our gmail > account. In the end we created a new gmail account, set it to forward to > our real email address, and we're using that as our SMTP server. If you > are using SMTP to send your emails while travelling you really need to > test it out while you are still home! > > Cheers, Kaye > ---------------------- > Kaye and Geoff > k...@kgweb.org.au > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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