Can any of you network/email/computer guys help?

I live in Burke, VA and use outlook 2003 for email via cox.net . I am traveling and would like to use outlook for email while connected to other networks ... namely comcast.net. When connected I can receive incoming email, but my sent mail remains in the outbox. Comcast seems to have a FAQ available if you are a comcast user and travel . Cox doesn't.

http://help.comcast.net/content/faq/How_do...2003_for_E-mail

I've chatted with both tech services and each points to the other for a possible solution. I am told that at the moment Cox does not use other outgoing server than port 25.

Maybe I can't get there from here, but does anyone have a solution other than webmail?

 

Most SMTP servers don't allow relaying (that is, if you're not on their network they won't allow you to use their SMTP server). So Cox.net is noticing you're on Comcast's network and is denying the SMTP connection.

You need to use an SMTP server thats either local (whatever ISP you're using), or use a secure SMTP server like Google's Gmail SMTP server.

You would need a Google Mail account to use Google's SMTP server, and I don't know if Outlook 2003 supports TLS (encryption) for SMTP.

You can still send email from your Cox.net address, you're just using Google's SMTP server.

http://lifehacker.com/software/email-apps/...rver-111166.php

 

hummmm

That set up sounds similar to the comcast directions.

I was able to send a test message when I changed the outgoing server info to the comcast smtp and port openning and my daughter's user id and password, but then I couldn't receive anything from cox as the user id and password weren't the ones for cox. Seems I might need to set up 2 mail accounts in outlook .. one for incoming (cox) and one for outgoing (comcast).

can this be done?

 

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I'm not an outlook 2003 expert, but I know for most mail clients the username/password you define for SMTP can be different then the username/password you define for your Incoming mail. You always should be able to specify a different SMTP server versus your Incoming mail server.

Thunderbird (Mozilla's free Mail client) definitely supports this -- in fact your SMTP settings are completely separate from your Incoming mail settings. I know Eudora works the same too.

My work blocks gmail's website so I can't pull up the help documentation for you unfortunately.

 

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