frovingslosh
join:2003-08-28
Apex, NC
| reply to Use the links
Re: [Xtreme] Send no mail with DSL Xtreme
said by Use the links :
.....instructions on how to set up a secondary non-BellSouth email account (thus solving your problem). That info only solves the problem if the other outgoing mail server you have access to is willing to configure things just to suit BellSouth. If they use port 25 (the standard) for your outgoing, their incoming, connection, you are screwed. |
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mikes60
My Paradise
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join:2001-07-31
Boynton Beach, FL
 ·AT&T Southeast
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| said by frovingslosh  :said by Use the links :
.....instructions on how to set up a secondary non-BellSouth email account (thus solving your problem). That info only solves the problem if the other outgoing mail server you have access to is willing to configure things just to suit BellSouth. If they use port 25 (the standard) for your outgoing, their incoming, connection, you are screwed. I am using BellSouth to access 4 completely different email systems from totally unrelated companies. I have trouble believing that none of them are using the "standard" you are mentioning.
What am I missing here?
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frovingslosh
join:2003-08-28
Apex, NC
| Are you sending mail through any of those systems (by POP/SMTP, not by "web-mail")?
BS has blocked port 25, the outgoing port normally used for e-mail. You can access other POP servers for receiving mail (I have about 9 accounts I check regularly). But since port 25 has been blocked you can't send through those other systems.
While this is said to be to thwart spammers, it also has a big impact on some users. I used to use a private system I had access to. It was highly reliable, unlike the BS outgoing mail servers. I could configure my notebook to send mail through that server no matter where I went, home, office or on the road. Now I have to reconfigure my system when at home to use BS.. When at work or in the road to use the other system (I can't use my BS mail account from outside the BS network, it will not even let me authenticate in with a user/password to send mail!). And when friends come here with their notebooks and want to check their e-e-mail and send responses, I have to have them reconfigure their mail clients to use the BS mail servers for the outgoing mail, since BS has block port 25 with their "you must only use us" approach. I hate spammers and am all for aggressively going after them, but not by further harming legitimate users.
If you still think you are sending mail through these other systems, tell us what settings you have in your client software for outgoing mail (addresses and port numbers). Do not post any user name or password. |
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mikes60
My Paradise
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join:2001-07-31
Boynton Beach, FL
·AT&T Southeast
·Vonage
| said by frovingslosh :Are you sending mail through any of those systems (by POP/SMTP, not by "web-mail")? If you still think you are sending mail through these other systems, tell us what settings you have in your client software for outgoing mail (addresses and port numbers). Do not post any user name or password. I never said I was sending email thru these other systems. I use BellSouth as my outgoing server when I send email from my home office. I just configured everything to show the return address I prefer to use for each account.
When I travel, which is very often, I send my mail thru whatever system I'm using, since I can't send via BellSouth from another system
It's a little bit of a pain, but better than having BellSouth run wide open to spam. This is a battle I knew I could never win, so I made the changes necessary to keep my business emails working.
I've never missed an outbound or inbound email on any of my accounts. I also have my Blackberry set to scan all my accounts and send copies of all my sent emails to my BellSouth account.
I'd rather spend my time working and earning a living than just bashing BellSouth's blocking Port 25, as some people have chosen to do.
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jpony
@bellsouth.ne | "No one can use port 25 outbound except to a Bellsouth server, and it's been that way since 2002."
odd, never had this problem. 3rd-party servers work fine sending outbound smtp |
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