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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 01 November 2008 07:59:17 Mark Misulich wrote:
>   
> > I am looking for a little education via this email.  I have found when I go
> > on trips that I often can't send email, and once I have a problem I can't
> > send email again until I get back home and send email from there.
> >     
>
> It is usual for an ISP to check whether mail originates from an account that 
> it recognises as its own.  When you are away from home you are usually 
> attempting to send from a different domain and IP, so it rejects the mail 
> (probably someone will correct the technical details, but that's the general 
> idea).
>
> The solution is to have a second smtp account set up which is not ISP-
> dependent.  I use gmail for this.  When away from home I simply set the gmail 
> smtp account as the default sending one, and switch back when I get home.
>
>   

My ISP permits off network SMTP mail, but only by using port 587 instead
of 25.  I regularly send email from work that way.

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