Using Windows Mail away from home

[Jean]

I have never been able to successfully use Windows Mail away from my own
home. I can receive messages but cannot send them.

How do I set up an account when traveling that lets me get the full function
of Windows Mail?

Thanks in advance!

Jean

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

It is not permitted to use your home SMTP server (port 25) while
away from home. For more on this policy see:
http://www.postcastserver.com/help/Port_25_Blocking.aspx

The available workarounds are as follows:
1. Use webmail for sending (via your browser).
2. Ask your home ISP if they have a port other than '25' for SMTP.
3. Substitute the SMTP server belonging to your current connection
(hard to do when you move around a lot).
4. If sending from multiple locations, get a free Gmail account,
configure it for POP access, and use it for your sending chores.
Gmail uses port 465 for SMTP, which is not blocked like port 25 is.

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]]

When you're away from home, you're not connected to your home ISP and no ISP
will allow you to use the sending (SMTP) server that another ISP owns; at
home, your home ISP owns the SMTP server you normally use, so everything
works. Away from home, the ISP you're then using sees you want to use a
server they don't own and they prevent it (or your home ISP sees someone not
connected to them trying to use their server and THEY prevent it). You have
two choices:

1. When connected to a foreign ISP (you're away from home), change your
account settings to use this ISP's sending server.
2. Contact your home ISP to see if they have a special connect setting you
can use when not connected to them.

Hal
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[Dave]

See if your email account provider has a server that uses authentication and
a different port than 25.
Check their email help page on their website. Or tell us who the provider
is, and perhaps someone can help you.

 

[Mr. Arnold]

I have never been able to successfully use Windows Mail away from my own
home. I can receive messages but cannot send them.

How do I set up an account when traveling that lets me get the full
function
of Windows Mail?

I am on the road a lot, and I use an ISP that's nationwide here in the US. I
can reach that ISP in the US or not in the US with any connection type to
the Internet. I can access the ISP's mail server to send and receive email
using any email client application, such as Windows Mail.

 

[Guest]

I am on the road a lot, and I use an ISP that's nationwide here in the US.
I can reach that ISP in the US or not in the US with any connection type
to the Internet. I can access the ISP's mail server to send and receive
email using any email client application, such as Windows Mail.

If part of the connection goes through some other internet provider's
equipment before it reaches the internet provider which has the
server, problems with any connection method that uses port 25 are
likely. Problems with connection methods that use only other ports
are much less likely, but occasionally still happen.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I am on the road a lot, and I use an ISP that's nationwide here in the US. I
can reach that ISP in the US or not in the US with any connection type to
the Internet. I can access the ISP's mail server to send and receive email
using any email client application, such as Windows Mail.

Did you have a question, or were you submitting a comment? It isn't clear
from your description whether you are dialing in to a phone number that
is authorized by your ISP in order to get your Internet connection. If so,
you are always using the same ISP's connection, thus you have no issue with
SMTP servers. People who use random wireless hotspots as their Internet
connection will have a sending problem.