Setting up outgoing email?

[ldesign]

How do I set up outgoing email in Mozilla messenger (Netscape 7?) to use my domain's outgoing smtp?

smtp.mydomain.biz

(I'm actually using Mozilla Firebird, but they all configure the same.)

I know; I should use my ISP's. Please humor me.

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- What port?

- Check username and password?

- If so, what form of username?
name?
name+mydomain.biz?
name@mydomain.biz?

- Use secure connection:
No?
TLS, if available?
TLS?
SSL?

If tried every combination above and I still always get - "Unable to connect to SMTP server smtp.mydomain.biz. It may be down or misconfigured ...."

How do I make this work?

TIA,
Chuck

[TechWeasel]

Hi Chuck,

You're getting that message because smtp.yourdomain.biz doesn't exist. Use mail.yourdomain.biz for both your POP and SMTP server.

Username: account+yourdomain.biz (although username@yourdomain.biz will work in most clients too)

No special port (default should be 25)

No security options required (IP authorization is done through checking your POP mail).

Other than making sure you check your POP3 account every 5 minutes to keep your IP authorized, it should work fine (provided you ISP allows sending of mail through an external server - some do not).

(And I'd never tell anyone they "should" use their ISP mailserver... it's significantly easier to send mail when you're travelling if you can use a standard external mailserver).

[ldesign]

Bamm Bamm Bamm Bammm

That's the sound of me banging my head on my desk like "Coach" in Cheers.

I feel so stupid. I've should have figured that one out.

(I write php scripts that use mail.mydomain.biz, but for some reason I just had a neuro short circuit when it came to setting up an account in my mail program.)

I was going to help my client who keeps getting mail server timeouts when sending mail with attachments and I've never setup email to a page-zone server in my accounts before so I just robotically typed in smtp.

(I've seen the FAQ on that issue and it "appears" to be Norton Anti-virus. She uses Macafee, but perhaps it's the same issue.)

Thanks for taking the time to help me out.

("D'oh!")

Chuck