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| 1303418 | 2012-09-26 00:16:00 | Hi there. With all the recent issues (again) with xtra & sending to emails hosted by clearnet or paradise is there an alternative to sending via xtra ?? Can I setup a dummy gmail a/c and smtp(send) through that ? Ideally , Id move this company to hosted exchange or another email hosting service, but sometimes you dont get that option - for various (pathetic) reasons. www.stuff.co.nz Cheers |
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| 1303419 | 2012-09-26 00:24:00 | Yes, I use smtp.gmail.com for all my accounts. | decibel (11645) | ||
| 1303420 | 2012-09-26 00:59:00 | Same. Just use Gmail. I'm *over* ISP-supplied email services, particularly iHug (Vodafone) and Telecom Xtra (Yahoo / MSN), they've screwed up ROYALLY so many times that it's not even funny... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1303421 | 2012-09-26 01:02:00 | Xtra's email services were, imo, exceptionally good for ISP-provided, before they allowed Yahoo to fsck it all up. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1303422 | 2012-09-26 01:47:00 | Xtra/Telecom have now blocked port 25 for all but their own outgoing mail server (if you still use smtp.xtra.co.nz) so unless you can send on a different port (such as like gmail does) you're pretty much stuffed. As suggested, open a gmail account (if you dont already have one) and use it as your outgoing mail server. Good luck. | Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1303423 | 2012-09-26 02:05:00 | You can get Telecom to unblock port 25 (on business a/c's ), so thats no biggie. I'll make the change to gmail for sending. Thanks for the replies. Life-saver . :) |
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| 1303424 | 2012-09-26 02:08:00 | Xtra's email services were, imo, exceptionally good for ISP-provided, before they allowed Yahoo to fsck it all up. It was run by MSN before that. Telecom have been outsourcing their mail for *yonks*! |
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| 1303425 | 2012-09-26 02:35:00 | Xtra/Telecom have now blocked port 25 for all but their own outgoing mail server (if you still use smtp.xtra.co.nz) Interesting, I have no trouble connecting to port 25 on any mail server, except those that restrict inbound connections of course, via any of 3 Telecom broadband connections I have access to. None have requested port25 be unblocked. |
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| 1303426 | 2012-09-26 02:58:00 | Maybe only new accounts block port 25 because a new one I was dealing with recently had to be unblocked. | WarNox (8772) | ||
| 1303427 | 2012-09-26 09:30:00 | Interesting, I have no trouble connecting to port 25 on any mail server, except those that restrict inbound connections of course, via any of 3 Telecom broadband connections I have access to. None have requested port25 be unblocked.I had to set 2 clients up on xtra yesterday as they swapped over from telstra to telecom. they have mail outgoing on their own domain (mail.domainname.co.nz) with authentication which worked fine on telstra, it stopped working as soon as I reconfiged the modem to xtra, found out port 25 was blocked, but worked ok with xtra outgoing (smtp.xtra.co.nz). First time I have struck it, but the first time I have put a client onto telecom for quite a long time that had email hosted on their own domain. I get the feeling it is quite a new thing they are doing on new accounts, but might be wrong. | Iantech (16386) | ||
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