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Re: [LUG] Server problem

 
Yes you'll find that your ISP will allow customers using it's service on it's own IP range to generally send emails (sometimes you might find that it blocks unrecognised domains).

If you want to send mail from your laptop on a different ISP you could:

1. Configure your outgoing smtp to use your domain hosts smtp server (which will probably require some sort of user authentication with a password and maybe even TLS or SSL encryption).

2. Configure your laptop to send mail directly (I'd guess setting up exim on your laptop) but then you'd need to secure it to only allow sending from localhost or 127.0.0.1 so only your laptop can send mails, so probably more hassle than it's worth to setup. Plus some IPs might be blacklisted by some mail servers.

3. Configure a machine at home to act as a mail server to send mail via your home ISP's smtp server and have your laptop connect either via a VPN to your home network or forward ports for smtp (but again setup some sort of authentication such as TLS and require a username and password to send mail).

Personally I'd go for option 1. Just requires you to maybe check the FAQs on your web hosts support pages or contact their support for the settings, they should be able to provide them for the most common mail clients, or failing that give you some genetic settings (such as server host name, port, authentication type etc).

Rob

On 16 February 2014 12:39:34 GMT+00:00, Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 16/02/14 12:32, Daniel Robinson wrote:
 It works

 On Feb 16, 2014 12:31 PM, "Neil Winchurst" <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx
 <mailto:barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

     Have had trouble with sending emails to the list. This was after a
     change of smtp server.

     As my ISP is not the same as my web hosting service I had the idea
     of using the ISP out server. If this appears on the list it works.

     Neil

So it seems! This is fine for my desk top computer, but my laptop will 
only work here at home. If I try elsewhere using wifi the ISP will be 
different.

Neil


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