http://computeruser.ca/2009/02/03/how-to-enable-smtp-authentication/ NOT just another computer weblog Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:26:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://computeruser.ca/2009/02/03/how-to-enable-smtp-authentication/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Can Receive But Not Send Email « blog.computerplumber.ca Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:26:07 +0000 http://computeruser.ca/?p=34#comment-6 [...] To troubleshoot #1, first check if your internet is even working then contact your email provider, perhaps they are having email issues (make sure you can answer the questions #2 and #3 to assist in support). Sometimes your email provider may not be your ISP, if this is the case it is possible your ISP requires all SMTP traffic to authenticate and relay through them and not your actual email provider. This has been the case with quite a few ISP’s to restrict SMTP traffic due to worm activity.  You should be able to get this information from your ISP technical support (Rogers and Bell usually require relaying through their SMTP) .  To check your SMTP authentication read this. [...] [...] To troubleshoot #1, first check if your internet is even working then contact your email provider, perhaps they are having email issues (make sure you can answer the questions #2 and #3 to assist in support). Sometimes your email provider may not be your ISP, if this is the case it is possible your ISP requires all SMTP traffic to authenticate and relay through them and not your actual email provider. This has been the case with quite a few ISP’s to restrict SMTP traffic due to worm activity.  You should be able to get this information from your ISP technical support (Rogers and Bell usually require relaying through their SMTP) .  To check your SMTP authentication read this. [...]

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