Thanks Patrick, I will try those and see what happens.
"Patrick Keenan" wrote:
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> "Wayne" <Wayne@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:328692C3-43A0-468E-9B2E-CA7C0828C9BD@xxxxxx Quote:
> >I have live mail set up on my home account and it works great there.
> >However,
> > when I am away from that account using another server it can only receive
> > mail not send mail. Is there a way to configure it to send when I am
> > connected to a public account such as a hotel?
> > Thanks for any help.
> > Wayne
>
> It depends on what your mail provider offers. If you can *only* send mail
> on Port 25, when you are connected to another network, you won't be able to
> send. This is completely normal now. For anti-spam purposes, mail
> relaying on Port 25 is blocked by most ISPs.
>
> Contact your mail provider and see if they offer another port.
>
> Alternately, you can create a gmail account and use that as your outgoing
> server, and this will work from pretty much anywhere in the world. There's
> a little bit of setup, but if you collect the instructions and understand
> them, you can have this set up and working in under half an hour. Google
> has all the directions you need. On some mail clients, particularly the
> Mac mail client Entourage, mail sent this way will arrive addresseed as
> from," name@xxxxxx on behalf of mail@xxxxxx"
>
> HTH
> -pk
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