Different smpt in outlook 07 beta??

[Guest]

Hi there,
So, I am having an interesting problem with the outlook 07 beta. I have to
change my outgoing smpt settings, depending on where I am. At home I use
Comcast (now time warner), and at the office, I use sbc global. In order to
be able to successfully send email from my pop account, I have to set the
outgoing settings to smpt.sbcglobal.net while at work and change them to
smpt.comcast.net when at home.
This doesn’t make any sense to me, as everything used to work using
mail.[myhost].com for both incoming and outgoing . I don’t see why I should
have to change the setting depending on who I am connecting to the internet
through.

Am I crazy?
Is this a known bug in the 07 beta?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Depends on the security settings of your ISP. Try setting your SMTP server
to use authentication.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Hi there,
So, I am having an interesting problem with the outlook 07 beta. I have to
change my outgoing smpt settings, depending on where I am. At home I use
Comcast (now time warner), and at the office, I use sbc global. In order to
be able to successfully send email from my pop account, I have to set the
outgoing settings to smpt.sbcglobal.net while at work and change them to
smpt.comcast.net when at home.
This doesn't make any sense to me, as everything used to work using
mail.[myhost].com for both incoming and outgoing . I don't see why I should
have to change the setting depending on who I am connecting to the internet
through.

Am I crazy?
Is this a known bug in the 07 beta?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Check whether you are using the correct SMTP port settings. Maybe your
mail.[myhost].com requires/allows a different port than 25?
The issue is actually not with Outlook. ISPs frequently block the SMTP
port (25) so that you can't use a foreign SMTP server from within their
network, but have to use theirs. It's a way of preventing abuse of mail
servers. Generally changing the port of your SMTP server to one that is
not 25 gets around this problem. The change though has to be made by
your host provider, so you'd have to check with them.

Patrick Schmid