Virgin media SMTP settings

[3do]

I'm setting up an free web hosting account for my father due to his current one changing from free to pay. Anyway whilst setting up the email i noticed it says the following:
Outgoing (SMTP) server: you need to use your ISP (Internet Service Provider) SMTP server.

So can i use the blueyonder/virgin media SMTP settings in order to get outgoing mail and if so where do i find these settings or will i not be able to use virgin's SMTP server?

thanks

[Kymmy]

Nope, the VM SMTP server is only available on a VM connection. The free web host should have it's own SMTP server that you can use, or use webmail..

[BenMcr]

The Blueyonder, Virgin.net and Virginmedia.com servers can be used with a Virgin Media e-mail address on any ISP - as long as they don't block it. You need to sign into the SMTP servers using the Virgin e-mail address and password

This was enabled as part of the e-mail migration to the Google platform

The ntlworld.com smtp is the only one that doesn't allow it yet.

[Kymmy]

Ben, when did they change it?

[BenMcr]

Basically happened at the same time as the introduction of SSL and the 'other' ports. Part of the reason for these settings is to allow off-net access to the servers.

So @virginmedia.com e-mail address customers have always been able to do so

@virgin.net customers gained the ability end of last year when they were migrated to the Google platform

@blueyonder.co.uk customers got it earlier this year

@ntlworld.com customers will get it later this year once the SMTP server is migrated to google - unfortunately there is no way to enable it on the current server.

[3do]

So if i use the same SMTP settings that i have for my blueyonder account i can get outgoing emails??

I would use the web hosts SMTP but because its free website hosting i use they only allow me to get incoming emails and i was informed to use my ISP's SMTP server if i wanted to get outgoing emails.

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by 3do

So if i use the same SMTP settings that i have for my blueyonder account i can get outgoing emails??

Yes - although I would set him up with seperate e-mail address as the sending e-mail is attached to each mail sent. So if you use your setttings, your e-mail will be sent

[3do]

cheers ben.

It's worked fine as i got an email sent between the newly setup website email account and my gmail account.