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?alabio

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¡Hello!

¿How Fare You?

I use your emailservice. With it, I can get email by POP or web whitherever I go. Since yesterday, outgoing email from SMTP and my emailclient stopped working. I can still receive email via POP and your webmail works. I tried the ports 25, 587 and your own special port 2500. I doublechecked all settings. ¿Could you please advice me about what to do or fix the problem?

¡Thanks!
 
You have given very little information. Based on the information that you have given, however, my best guess is that you are trying to send mail through an ISP that doesn't accept SMTP servers outside its own domain. This is extremely common and is becoming more so.
 
> Try 587 again.

I did. None of the three ports (25, 587, 2500) work.

> You have given very little information. Based on the information that you have given, however, my best guess is that you are trying to send mail through an ISP that doesn't accept SMTP servers outside its own domain. This is extremely common and is becoming more so.

The ISP is currently SBC.
 
>> The ISP is currently SBC.

> Are you using SBC's SMTP server or someone else's?

I never used the SMTP-Server of SBC. I only use the SMTP-Server of MacOSX.Com.
 
> It is likely then that you have to use SBC's SMTP server.

I intended to write that in order to do that, I would have to install their rootkit, I mean software — that is a real requirement -, but they reopened the ports; so, it is a moot point. When the ports closed, I complained to SBC, but got the response that unless I installed their software, they would refuse to help. That is why I went to MacOSX.Ocom, because last time this happened, it opened a new port (2500) as a workaround. I suppose that so many complained to SBC that they reopened the ports despite their customers refusing to install the rootkit.

Post Scriptum:

This would be a good place to insert a joke about brain-dead me-too AOL-ers installing software from strange discs in the mail:


― “And postin’ ‘¡Me too!’ like some brain-dead AOL-er”
― “I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller”
― “You’re just about as useless as jpegs to Helen Keller”
—
Weird Al Yankovic
 
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