outlook mail question

External Since: Feb 22, 2004 Posts: 19

I have dial up at home but travel with my laptop to librarys and such. What
POP info do i ad in my outlook so that I can send and receive mail ALSO on
outlook express? I see on my setting there that I have my dial up info but
since I am not using dial up at the library (using wireless of course), can
i still use outlook express? if so how do i go about it?
WIndows xp home edition sp2/IE7 outlook xpress 6

External Since: Sep 07, 2004 Posts: 4330

In OE got to Tools, Accounts, Mail, Properties, Connection and uncheck
the option to always use the specific connection if that is enabled.
That way, OE will use any available connection, including Wi-Fi.

Sending and receiving mail may be a problem. It depends both on your
normal ISP and what the specific library or other location allows.

Receiving is less likely to be an issue than sending. If you ISP
supports SSL for e-mail, be sure to enable that.

Many ISPs require that you be directly connected to their service (not
via another ISP, corporate LAN, Wi-Fi hotspot, etc.) in order to send
via their SMTP mail server. (They match your IP address against those
owned by the service.) An exception is made for messages being sent to
recipients of their service. The typical error message will be "Cannot
Relay" or "Not Local" or "Not Gateway", "Not Allowed Rcpthost" or
something similar. For some mail services, the SMTP Authentication may
be needed. In OE/WLM this is specified in Tools, Accounts, Mail,
Properties, Servers, Outgoing Mail Server, My Server Requires
Authentication.

Some ISPs block access to other SMTP mail servers while connected via
them. (They block TCP/IP port 25 except to their own SMTP mail server.)
The error messages may indicate network is unreachable, access denied,
or timeout errors (socket errors 10051, 10061 and 10060.) In some
cases you can use Port 587 or 465 rather than port 25 (specify in OE/WLM
at Tools, Accounts, Mail, Properties, Advanced). Your ISP is more
likely to allow this port. The SMTP mail server has to support this
port. SMTP Authentication will likely be required. In OE/WLM this is
specified in Tools, Accounts, Mail, Properties, Servers, Outgoing Mail
Server, My Server Requires Authentication.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

"MR" <mr.RemoveThis@mr.com> wrote in message
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> I have dial up at home but travel with my laptop to librarys and such.
> What POP info do i ad in my outlook so that I can send and receive
> mail ALSO on outlook express? I see on my setting there that I have my
> dial up info but since I am not using dial up at the library (using
> wireless of course), can i still use outlook express? if so how do i
> go about it?
> WIndows xp home edition sp2/IE7 outlook xpress 6
>