I use MS OL2000 as my email program (yeah, I know I could do better securitywise, but I like the features). It is set to connect to my schools email server via the internet. Previously, I never had problems with sending emails. In the past, I was connected to the internet via LAN to my school’s T1.
But now, I’m at a temporary address and I opened a JUNO account to get internet service via modem. Mostly, the connection is just fine. Web browsing and receiving emails works great. However, sending email is now a problem. But not all email-which qualifies this problem as a real humdinger. For example, I just replied to a message in my inbox. The software queried the server but came back with an error message reading:
[ul]The message could not be sent because on of the recipients was rejected by the server. Server Response: ‘550 <recipient email address>…Relaying denied’.(Account:‘my POP mail server’,SMTP Server:‘My SMTP
server’,Error Number: 0x800ccc79).[/ul]
No matter how many times I try to send it, I get this response. If the message is urgent, I can connect directly to the server via telnet and send it. This works fine. However, I wish to send the messages via Outlook.
On the other hand, there are messages which Outlook will deliver. I just now replied to a second message which, coincidentally or not, was to an address at my school and it sent fine.
I haven’t changed the configuration of my email since I switched from LAN/T1 to dial-up. Is there a setting I can modify?
The reason is because your school’s SMTP server will not accept messages destined for outside the school from a machine not on the school’s network. This is to prevent people from sending spam with forged headers and using your school’s SMTP server as a relay (thus “relaying denied.”) This is why it will work fine for sending email to other people at your school but not for anyone else.
You need to use Juno’s SMTP server to send outgoing mail. (You can still use your school’s email address in the “From” field of your email, just use Juno’s SMTP server to send it.)
Thanks friedo, that might be it (Although I do not recall having problems using my bro’s computer, which is on an outside providers cable network, to send email).
Anyway, I checked the Juno site for the SMTP address and came up with the following:
Does this mean that I’m SOL?
PS I only need access for another 3 weeks or so. Is there another carrier in NYC that will give me a free month but that allows use of third party mail software?
That won’t keep you from accessing somebody else’s email server, just Juno’s. If you can do without sending email outside your school’s server, your current setup will do fine. If you need universal access, set up an email account elsewhere. Hotmail lets you use Outlook Express to send and receive mail without having to use the web interface. I use it for my Hotmail account then export the non-spam into Outlook 2000 so all my messages end up in the same place.
sewalk, thanks for the suggestion. It seems that to use hotmail, though, I’d need to send and receive my messages through that address. I was hoping to use my school’s POP3 for retrieving mail but a different SMTP for sending mail. That way, I’d have the best of both worlds: I could send emails to whomever I wished and not have to inform the world that I’ve changed addresses. Is this possible?