Email Help

[suarve]

Hi,

I'm lost as to what to next here. Mate has en emaila ccount he collects at work via his laptop, this works fine. However, he can't send emails using exactly the same settings at home and has said in the past he had to use his isps (orange) smtp server details at home in order to send emails at home. Can anyone shed any light on this? He has a simple router, connecting wirelessly at home.

All I can think of is that orange have some sort of block?

Ta

 

[suarve]

Yes, they'll block traffic on port 25 to limit spam. Assuming that's the port your mate is trying to connect on he'll need to use a different one. Perhaps enable SSL and connect on port 465, depends what the mail server he's trying to use will allow.

Ah, thought It'd be something like that. Cheers.