Re: cannot send mail from motels ect.

"tomkzufomsg" <tomkzufomsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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When my wife uses her laptop away from home in motels. she can browse the
internet or receive mail but cannot send mail. I know they give her an
ethernet cable at every place she stays and she knows how to set laptop up
for those 2 things but the sending of mail has me baffeled. She uses
incredamail and has xp media center 2k5.

Neither of these are really relevant to the problem, which is a network
issue.

I was wondering what setting needs
changed to make it possible to send mail. I thank you very much in advance
for the help
--
tomkz

The setting that needs to be changed is the outgoing mail server. She
needs an account with another mail service, like Google's gmail.

What's happening is that at home, she is connecting to your ISP's SMTP
server on port 25, while connected to their network. But, like most,
your ISP does not allow connections to that mail server from outside of
their network, which is called relaying. Blocking relaying is common
practice, to prevent the ISP's servers from being used for spam purposes.

So, what is necessary is to sign up for another mail service, like gmail.
Follow the directions, and create a gmail account accessed by Outlook
Express. Now, go to Tools, Accounts in Outlook Express and take the
settings for the outgoing server, including ports and SSL settings, and
apply them to the mail client you're using. Also change the "from" and
"reply to" addresses, so that mail is received normally.

HTH
-pk


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