Re: smtpmail help

["dsoliver@earthlink.net" <dsoliver@earthlink.net>]

Tim, you're right, I'm sure. I played with changing my port number from
25 to 465 and 587 to use smtpauth. Things made it a little further, but
then I got the turn on smtp authorization message. I thought that's
what I had already done. Do you think I have a bad or old program, or
just set it up incorrectly? Do I have to turn on those features
manually?

Here's another conundrum: when I email myself (using the charter smtp
server) my earthlink spam filter, which filters out all messages coming
from sources not in my addressbook (kept online at ELnk), my own email
is seen as spam, even though my address is correct in the email and in
my address book. If I email anyone else, they get the message and
return it to me just using their email return function, which uses my
email address as it was received. That returned email comes to me fine.
It's only filtered if I send it to myself. I can't figure that out.

At least I can now send email from Emacs. None of my other email
clients have had these problems. That's why I've been frustrated. Right
now I'm sending this through Thunderbird.

Thanks - - Douglas
Tim X wrote:
> "dsoliver@earthlink.net" <dsoliver@earthlink.net> writes:
>
> > Well, I changed (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.earthlink.net") to
> > (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.charter.net"), and everything is
> > working ok now. My email account is with Earthlink, so I have always
> > used their smtp server; however, my ISP cable account is with Charter,
> > so I just switched to their smtp server. Is there a way I could use
> > earthlink's again without being kicked out? I'm not sure what I would
> > add to my .emacs file or even if it's possible. My concern is if I
> > needed to switch to my dial up earthlink account. Of course I could
> > just change back to Elnk from Chrtr.
> >
>
> Going by the error message in your earlier mail and from what you
> outline above, I suspect there is nothing you can do. What is likely
> happening is that earthlink has configured their smtp server to only
> accept mail for relaying from addresses wtihin their domain to prevent
> spammers from using their mail server as a relay.
>
> The only possible solution I can think of is if earthlink provides an
> authenticated gateway for using their mail server. This would require
> smtpmail to login into the earthlink server using your earthlink
> username and password. I don't know if smtpmail supports this.
>
> HTH
>
> Tim
>
> --
> Tim Cross
> The e-mail address on this message is FALSE (obviously!). My real e-mail is
> to a company in Australia called rapttech and my login is tcross - if you
> really need to send mail, you should be able to work it out!