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I have a powerbook with Entourage. I tour alot therefore use alot of WIFI. Usually i can send and receive with my blueyonder account wherever i am. However currently i am staying in France, have connected through ethernet and wifi to a friends french Orange livebox.
I can receive but not send, it tries but says "too much traffic etc" "server timed out" blah blah...
Apologies if this has already been covered!
I can access the configuration page of the box but its in french and my french is not good enough to mess with someone elses settings...but is it my settings or its?
If you're using port 25 (default) for the outgoing server then it's likely being blocked. You have to either use Orange's server or use an alternative port number if blueyonder provide one.
Hi, yes, the port is set on the default of 25 in outgoing smtp.
incidently i have an ancient freeserve address that i havn't been able to send from either (for years!) but can receive which is also on port 25.
i'll search the port numbers and try it...
would that also explain why i can't also access and edit my ancient freeserve web site?
thankyou...
reset blueyonder to 110, it said couldn't connect to server, wrong port number?
tried resetting freeserve to 8080, no joy just hangs...
i don't have the same problem with blueyonder when i am at home or on other systems....but never been able to use freeserve...
I assume you can just set the correct servers on an account already in there, just new accounts help make sure all the settings are clean.
Port 110 is usually for the pop server, receiving rather than sending which is where you have the problem. It's the outgoing server that needs a different port number, remember you can only use ones blueyonder allow. If they don't allow any other ports than 25 then you won't be able to use their server to send email while on an Orange connection, least not directly.
You could try using smtp.orange.fr while there but I don't know the french server addresses, you could always check the settings for your friend's account and just use the SMTP server shown there.
yes changing to smtp.orange.fr worked on the old account after the second attempt!
As does the old freeserve address. So simple when you understand, and logical.
Now i'm going to attempt to access my ancient website...
thankyou!
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