[techtalk] POP mail

[Steve Kudlak]

"Jenn V." wrote:

> Di Gregory wrote:
> >
> > SO how do I have a POP email account if I can't dial up into the account
> > directly.  I couldn't get the POP email to work when I set up my old
> > roommate's I -THINK- because our dialup was a local provider, the pop
> > email was through school (NOT the provider) and ALTHOUGH it DID work to
> > "relay", the receiver server of the email did not accept it and send it
> > back.
>
> I'm still not sure what's happening.
>
> Ok. Whether you dial up to the POP server doesn't matter.
>
> What you need from the place where you have the POP account is
> this:
>
> mail server (possibly separate incoming and outgoing, possibly not)
> username
> password
> email address
>
> Put these into your email program, where it asks for them.
> Make sure you check that you have it in both incoming AND
> outgoing - the 'we do not relay' error message implies to me
> that you sent to the wrong 'outgoing' mail server.
>
> POP mail is usually served by an SMTP server, which is why
> people talked about SMTP servers in their replies.
>
> Make sure the email address your email program thinks you're
> using is the one assigned to you by /these/ people.
>
> You can POP across the net - it doesn't matter /where/ you
> dialled up - but if you use a 'wrong' mail server that is
> what's likely to cause the 'we do not relay' response.
>
> (mail servers used to relay for each other, but with the
> advent of so much spam mail and spam mailers using mail
> relaying to mask their origins, they had to stop that
> service.)
>
> Jenn V.
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>
> Jenn Vesperman    jenn at simegen.com     http://www.simegen.com/~jenn
>
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Well this is indeed the error I get when I fail to feed the proper email
address and account and password for the POP3 server to some mail program. In
my case it is ns1.ovis.net . Note I left Jenn's message intact because it
supplies valuable information, even though I have not added that much text. I
have tried "breaking" my mailer connection (in a browser) and yep I get the
"relay" failure when I try to send a message.

Have Fun,
Sends Steve


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