Saturday, October 24, 2009

What's a good email program like IncrediMail?

I like IncrediMail, but for some reason I can't get it to send mail from my webmail address. I need something that'll do that.





OR if you know how to fix my webmail problem that'd be great :)
What's a good email program like IncrediMail?
It's hard to say what exactly the problem is, but I'm going to take a stab at it based on best guess.





Some assumptions:





1) You have Incredimail set up to read and send from both your webmail account and your ISP email account.





2) You can read and send on your ISP email account, but are unable to send on your webmail account.





3) Your webmail account does not have its own SMTP setup options.





4) You have tried setting up the webmail account to send mail using the SMTP settings for the ISP email account, and it won't go.





If all these are correct, then your problem is that your ISP does not relay SMTP; in other words, your ISP's SMTP server is seeing a piece of mail come through that does not have a return address from that ISP, and is refusing it.





You need to contact your ISP and see if there is a way to log on to their SMTP server with session authentication. If the server has a way to know that you are an actual subscriber, it may allow you to send messages with a reply-to that is not one of their addresses.





If my assumptions above are NOT correct, then you should try those things first. :)





Edit: if you are unable to contact your webmail's SMTP server through your current connection, it could be that the ISP is blocking that traffic. Try changing the SMTP settings so that the webmail outbound mail goes through the ISP's SMTP server instead. Use session authentication if it is available.





And don't forget to check your Bronfenbrenner diagram, I posted a new one for you.
Reply:Well, I really like Mozilla Thunderbird. And it's free too.


Did you allow in your mail browser the POP settings? For example in Yahoo you have to go to options, mail options, POP settings and then hook the first choice. Otherwise your mail browser will not allow you to access it from any other program.

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