Sending Mail Relay Problems

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

YOu just need to change your settings on the properties of your mail account
to match the ISP you are using while travelling. Usually, just setting up
authentication to the outgoing server is sufficient.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Terry asked:

| Hello - I need to travel a lot and have problem with sending email
| when I change ISP's. I always get the "550" error - not a gateway.
|
| Can anyone rercommend a good local SMTP server that I can install on
| my laptop to solve this problem?
|
| Thanks

 

[Vanguard]

Thanks. But that is what I do not want to have to worry about.
Sometimes, I
have no idea who the local ISP is and do not want to have to ask.
Therefore
I am looking at some of the SMTP severs that I can install on my
laptop -
that say that they solve this problem. Do they actually solve this?


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"

YOu just need to change your settings on the properties of your mail account
to match the ISP you are using while travelling. Usually, just
setting up
authentication to the outgoing server is sufficient.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Terry asked:

| Hello - I need to travel a lot and have problem with sending email
| when I change ISP's. I always get the "550" error - not a gateway.
|
| Can anyone rercommend a good local SMTP server that I can install
on
| my laptop to solve this problem?
|
| Thanks

So, you are saying that you actually have tried authenticating to your
SMTP server (which is off-domain of the ISP to which you connect) and
that didn't work? If you are coming off-domain to an ISP's SMTP server,
they usually want you to authenticate. However, they may impose other
restrictions, like you use SSL to secure your login credentials and you
also enable SPA (secure password authentication). You need to look up
on your ISP's help web page or call them to find out how they permit
off-domain connects to their SMTP server.

There is also the possibility that the ISP you are using when traveling
does not permit SMTP traffic to traverse their domain to some off-domain
SMTP server. They demand that all SMTP traffic target their on-domain
SMTP server. You'll need to check with whomever you are using while
traveling as you ISP at that time if they permit SMTP traffic to
traverse their domain but target an off-domain SMTP server. But first
check, as you were told, if authenticating to your normal SMTP server
will allow you to connect to it (provided you have correctly configured
your account per your ISP's instructions for inbound off-domain
connects).

 

[Terry]

Hello - I need to travel a lot and have problem with sending email when I
change ISP's. I always get the "550" error - not a gateway.

Can anyone rercommend a good local SMTP server that I can install on my
laptop to solve this problem?

Thanks

 

[Terry]

Thanks. But that is what I do not want to have to worry about. Sometimes, I
have no idea who the local ISP is and do not want to have to ask. Therefore
I am looking at some of the SMTP severs that I can install on my laptop -
that say that they solve this problem. Do they actually solve this?