Relaying mail?

[Wiggz]

Hi,

Need a few ideas here. I'm using a dialup account for my lappy whilst I'm at work. It's the only one I'm allowed to run whilst at work, and cannot change dialup provider here (we also have BB, but this is for different port access and things). I can grab ntlworld.com emails from my personal account to my Laptop through this dialup isp no problems.....however I obviously cannot send outgoing email back through this isp....as ntl will not allow relaying.

What I want to know is how i can send outgoing emails from my ntl account through my work isp without causing a problem with T&C's. Any techie out there want to suggest any mail routing program....or something

Cheers

Any help or replies greatly appreciated

Wiggz

[SOSAGES]

use an IMAP account? i have a few users on my lan using outlook 2003 that have an IMAP account setup and connect to NTL they seem to be able to send mail fine usint this system... but i admit i havnt looked into it my self so im not sure if thats 100% correct =)

[SMHarman]

First I'd check your work data policies on these things.

Second you configure the outgoing mail to the smtp server of your eers isp. But configure the reply to as the @ntlworld address.

[rdhw]

Originally Posted by Wiggz

however I obviously cannot send outgoing email back through this isp....as ntl will not allow relaying.

I think you have misunderstood. There is no reason why you should not post your e-mails through the SMTP server of your dial-up ISP, and indeed it is the right thing to do.

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by rdhw

I think you have misunderstood. There is no reason why you should not post your e-mails through the SMTP server of your dial-up ISP, and indeed it is the right thing to do.

Yup.
Don't some ISP's block emails with reply to addy's outside their domain though?


If you're running 2000/XP you could just use the built in SMTP service in IIS, just set your outgoing SMTP server as 127.0.0.1
Oh and look on the web to find out how to secure Windows SMTP

[abailey152]

Originally Posted by Xaccers

Yup.
Don't some ISP's block emails with reply to addy's outside their domain though?

I know some smtp servers block emails which don't have the host name of the ISP in the From or To fields, but I'm not sure about the Reply To field. I thought a different Reply To address would work, as long as the From is correct.

[chriscl]

Hi,

It's not so much the addresses attached to an email - for example, the "reply to" address is merely a text label you set up in your email program.

Most ISP mail servers will only accept connections from hosts valid on their own networks - again, for example, your internet provider on your dial up account will have an SMTP server address, that will accept requests on TCP port 25 from hosts within its' network. When you allow hosts *outside* your network to send traffic to your mail server, this is what "relaying" is, as when you "relay" mail, *your* mail server appears as the sender, not the "originating" server.

Almost every ISP on the planet will ban relaying to try and prevent spam. If you really want to use your "ntlworld.com" account at work, you should be able to configure your mail client with the name and account details of the NTL POP server (to be able to receive mail) and then set the SMTP server address as your dial-up ISP's SMTP server.

As long as you set the "Reply-To" field to your @ntlworld.com address, all should be well...? As Robin notes above, this is the *correct* way to do it...

Which dial-up ISP are you using by the way...?