Computer gurus, help with email?

[BlueWorldAquatic]

When you are at camp, you are using their internet access right?

find out from one of the supervisors, or admins what their stmp server is.

You can use it for outgoing mail still, you just need to change the stmp to their domain.

Like using 'free' internet at a cafe or airport, you can recieve mail, just can't send it.

When I use my Bell cellular modem, I have to use like stmp.1bell.com to send emails through my actual domain at blueworld. Even at home, I have to use stmp.shaw.ca instead of stmp.blueworldaquatic.com.


only other option is to use webmail.

What ISP are you using.

Ken <= fish is not my only company

[banditpowdercoat]

I use netfirms for my Web hosting and email. I changed Windows mail to SMTP port 587 and I can send mail, but no receive. I have to log onto webmail.netfirms to check my mail. Just sux because I keep all my important emails on my computer, adn if I have to log onto webmail, I can't keep them. Well, not very easily. This just a PITA really

[brizzo]

Originally Posted by banditpowdercoat

I use netfirms for my Web hosting and email. I changed Windows mail to SMTP port 587 and I can send mail, but no receive. I have to log onto webmail.netfirms to check my mail. Just sux because I keep all my important emails on my computer, adn if I have to log onto webmail, I can't keep them. Well, not very easily. This just a PITA really

Did you try port 26?

[wolf_bluejay]

No, it's not a proxy issue at all. Usually most ISP do block all smtp access but their own. However -- note it is a SSL connection on 110 that you are tring to use and not un-secure smtp over port 25 (Yes, I am a smtp guru).
Port 25 blocked, and 110 sometime. The secure port you changed to is rarely blocked due to by standard it required authentication to use, and is unlikely to be spam.

Sending and receiving email are two completely different things. Normally the POP and IMAP ports are never blocked by the ISP, and you shouldn't need to change them.

Options, from easiest to hardest -- use Webmail (sounds like you don't have it as it is your own domain), use SSL (secure) services for both SMTP and IMAP, You could setup a VPN back to a "home" system, or even just use putty/ssh to create a temporary tunnel from a location that you can get to your SMTP server.

Or course, you can always find your IP address, check it against ARNIS Whois database to see who own the IP range, then lookup their smtp server.

telus == smtp.telus.net
shaw smtp.shaw.ca

disclaimer: Yes, I admin a lot of large SMTP servers

[banditpowdercoat]

port 26 doesn't work, selecting SSL doesn't work. so I guess I'm SOL