Outlook and Multiple SMTP

[seandudding]

Is it possible to define multiple SMTP per account within Outlook. Depending whether I am home, the office or using 3G, I have to use different SMTP servers.

I did set up an SMTP server on my Register1 Server, but only my home ISP isn;t blocking the port to allow me to reach it.

Cheers Sean

[malman]

Are you sure they are port blocking? Most of the time you can get away with using your ISPs smtp server from other networks as long as you turn on authentication.

If you

telnet smtp.server.of.choice 25

from a command line and you get the correct banner response for that server then they are not blocking or redirecting (as freeserve used to).

[joewilliams]

You need to set up an account for each SMTP server you use. You will then be able to select the account you want when sending a message.

Alternatively you can set up a local SMTP relay, but that's slightly more complex

[Noger]

I use authsmtp http://www.authsmtp.com/ to achieve this. There are other ways, as described above, or you can use the Gmail forwarding as well (for free).

[JamieBeeston]

joewilliams said:

You need to set up an account for each SMTP server you use. You will then be able to select the account you want when sending a message.

Alternatively you can set up a local SMTP relay, but that's slightly more complex

This will be the quickest fix..

it's a little fiddly, but just means when you compose an email, just before you send, you click to set which account to send it via (outlook has an option on the composed email)

It's a pain in the bum when ISP's hijack your port25 connections, otherwise you could simply use your Reg1 SMTP server for all accounts.

Some ISPs will 'remove' this hijack if requested.

J

[Noger]

Can you not use port 2525 ?

That is what I have to do.

[Arif110]

AUTHSMTP just fecking ROCK!! I'd spent years suffering the problem described - lots of e-mail accounts - and none of the other fixes were working - short indeed of having to create a whole set of new accounts per destination I would take my laptop to.

Stumbled upon the authsmtp solution while Googling up how to resolve yet another glitch with the above method - and it's been a real watershed in my e-mail usage - would go as far as to say that it's changed my relationship with my laptop, given how much I depend on my different e-mail accounts.

They just all work - no matter where I go. All that aggro - just felled in one swoop. Worth every penny. Why oh why did I not discover this solution sooner?!

Authsmtp do incidentally prefer for you to use port 2525, too.

There are a few other companies that do a similar thing - but I was most inspired by Authsmtp - plus they happen also to have the cheapest rates.

G'luck!