Thanks for all of the advice and suggestions regarding this. The problem was that I'd wanted to be able to sent SMTP mail via a specific server (while travelling) that was not my current ("on the road") ISP. I've solved this problem by creating another mail profile in Evolution that uses both the AT&T SMTP and POP servers, however email sent from this account has my hometown SMTP as the reply address. Given that I can check my hometown POP sever from AT&T, this method should work allowing me to send and receive from my hometown server without having to actually use the AT&T email address.If the recipient of one of these ("spoofed"??) messages replies to it, their response is sent not to the originating AT&T email account, but to the one on my hometown KPU.net ISP. I know, it's not elegant, but it'll work... Thanks again for the responses. On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 20:34, Scott Jones wrote:
On Saturday 03 April 2004 10:54, Glenn wrote:
Currently when I dial into AT&T, there is no problems getting messages from my hometown providers POP server, but if I try to send, nothing happens until I get the message "Error while performing operation: Could not connect to mail.kpunet.net (port 25):Connection timed out."
AT&T blocks outbound port 25, which means you can send mail out only through their SMTP server when dialed up with them (and yes, this is a good thing, despite the inconvenience).
I don't know about Evolution, but with KMail, you can change your outgoing server on the fly by setting up multiple SMTP servers and identities. Barring that, you would need to change it manually, depending on who you are using for dialup at the time.
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