Sending Email

[debalex]

OK - I have a dual problem - Earthlink and AOL have put a spam filter on my ISP -dslextreme.com, and it seems that when I send from the TCH server with "mail.deborahsrants.com" that it will not send. I can receive fine when Outlook Express is configured automatically by CPanel.

 

I changed the configuration to have the mail for deborah@deborahsrants.com sent via my ISP's STMP address, and this now seems to work. But, the whole point of setting up a new email account was to avoid gettng blocked out for the 30-40 folks on my email distribution list.

 

Any suggestions?

 

 

Deborah

[TCH-Rick]

If your ISP blocks port 25 there is nothing that can be done on our end or yours. You can use webmail to send from anywhere through your domain account but if you use an offline client such as Outlook you will be unable to send through your domain mailserver.

[TCH-Andy]

Hi,

 

unfortunately if your ISP has a block on port 25 then sending viw your TCH host using outlook or similar just won't happen.

 

You could use the webmail to send stuff to the email accounts which are blocked by your ISP, for which if it is a regular thing you could set up a mailing list on your server.

 

Andy

[TCH-Andy]

snap

[debalex]

Thanks. I feared that was the case. I will try to do webmail - but any suggestions on how to export the outlook express mail distribution list to the webmail application - I do not want to have to input manually all over again . . .

[TCH-Andy]

If you export the addressbook from outlook, then go into Horde in webmail on your site, go into the addressbook, select import, you can inport a file in outlook format (or CSV).

 

To be honest I havn't tried it, but the commands are there for it to work :-)

 

give it a go, if you get any problems come back and I'll have a try.

 

Andy

[webgyrl]

Deborah,

 

I use Outlook and Distribution groups to send out mass emails and Earthlink is my ISP (you can't use Outlook with AOL) and this is how I got over that Port 25 issue to send and recieve email via Outlook (but it shows as my domain name email)...

 

This is how things should look when you open Outlook and go to: Tools > Accounts and click on your email accounts within Outlook:

 

Click "Properties" for your email account and make sure the settings are as follows:

GENERAL

Mail Account: whatever name you want to show up in the email

User Information

Name: whatever name you want

Organization: whatever organization you want

E-mail address: yourname@******

Reply address: yourname@******

IMPORTANT: make sure you CHECK the box that says: include this account when receiving mail or synchronizing

 

SERVERS

Server Information

My incoming mail server is a POP3 server

Incoming Mail (POP 3): mail.earthlink.net

Outgoing Main (SMTP): mail.earthlink.net

Incoming Mail Server

Account Name: your ISP account name

Password: your ISP password

Make sure you CHECK "remember password"

 

CONNECTION

Make sure your connection reflects that you use earthlink etc.

 

ADVANCED

Server Port Numbers

Outgoing Mail (SMTP): 25

Incoming Mail (POP 3): 110

 

If you need any further explanation let me know.

 

If you need me to give you instructions to add an account to Outlook also let me know. I just gave you the breakdown for an existing Account in Outlook.

 

As for how the distribution group works... I do up the email an in the To: field I put an address that is something like myname@**** (like mail@mbstia.com) and then I select the BCC: field I click the BCC button, scroll to the distribution list I want to send email to, click "to", click "ok" and then I send out the mass email using whatever address I want to (eg. mail@mbstia.com)

 

That process ensures that no one can see the list of emails that is being distributed to.

 

Hope this info helps.

 

Nat