NTLWorld SMTP on non Virgin network?

[Helix]

Hi

I have just got an ASUS EEE PC which I bought so I could take it into uni with me as I live at home.

I have one problem though with my University E-Mail address. My university only provide POP3 access off campus and we have to use our ISP SMTP server to send email. On campus we can get POP3 and SMTP access. The problem is that I want to be able to send email both at home and at uni but without having to keep changing the outgoing server settings.

As I understand it the NTL SMTP server will only work on an Virgin/NTL connection. Is this correct? If so this would mean I wouldn't be able to send e-mails through this server when I am at uni.

I have tried using GMail's SMTP server to send emails from my uni address and it works but it comes through as :

[GMail address] sent on behalf of [Uni E-Mail Address]

One problem with this is we are told not to send email to lecturers from anything other than our uni addresses or it might get treated as spam. As it appears to be being sent from my GMail address this might cause a problem.

Is there anyway that I can send emails using the same outgoing server both at home and at uni, which will make the emails appear to be coming from my uni address?

Thanks
Craig

[Tali]

I think there's a setting in Outlook that you may be able to use, not sure if it's in Outlook Express.

Set up the two POP3 accounts as usual, one with Virgin SMTP, and the other with Uni SMTP.

When you compose an email, you should be able to choose which account you want to send it through. In Outlook 2007, there is an account button just beneath the Send button. I think that there is something similar for earlier versions.

Hope that makes sense.

[Aragorn]

You are correct that VM's SMTP server will only accept connections from a VM IP address - to prevent the spread of spam.
Thunderbird & Outlook will let you control which account to send mail from, but I don't know whether the VM server lets you send 'on behalf'.
If they Uni only allow incoming mail from uni addresses and don't allow external smtp access, do they allow VPN connections from home? Then you could be on the Uni net whilst at home.
Otherwise the best you have at the moment would be letting your lecturers know they could get email from VM or Uni and please reply to both!

[jem]

If they are blocking inbound SMTP, I would doubt they would allow inbound VPNs, it's very hard to control what you are allowing access to your network.

Just a thought but see if they have a web interface to the email system. Most systems provide these and although the experience is never as good as a proper email client - although Outlook Web Access to an Exchange server is very good as long as you are using Windows and IE7 - they are certainly good enough for most uses.