Re: Outgoing email blocked

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:47:41 +0100, Bill Ridgeway wrote:

It has been suggested that one way around this problem is to use an email
relay server. I don't know how these work. Presumably you send email to
them and they send it on. My question is, do recipients see the source as
being the ISP domain (bill@xxxxxx), my email host server (bill@xxxxxxxxxxx)
or the email relay server (bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)?

If your client has a domain hosted elsewhere, see if that hosting
provider offers an alternate Message Submission port. RFC defined port
587 for Message Submission. Some email providers offer access through
port 465 with SSL. If his hosting provider does that, have your client
use the provider's designated Message Submission port. If they don't,
have him request that they start doing so.

I know of two free email service providers, GMail, and Yahoo! Mail,
which allow you to configure their SMTP servers so a user can send email
from a different domain through the servers. Both the Sender, and the
Reply-To email addresses can be set to anything other than the server
domain; though both do reveal the underlying service domain email
address, the recipient would have to go out of his way to read the full
message headers. For a UK users, the Yahoo! Mail account is still free
(rather, requires a subscription to "Yahoo! Delivers"); in the
"yahoo.co.uk" domain.

For Gmail, SMTP service can be configured on port 465 with SSL.
For Yahoo! Mail (UK), SMTP service can be configured on port 587; no
encryption required.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum
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