Can’t SEND Email When Away or Abroad? Here’s How 2!

By R. Paul Stevens

I don’t know how many times I’ve travelled abroad, sat down to handle my personal and business email using my simple Outlook Express email client, only to find that for some reason I can RECEIVE email OK but I can’t SEND email. This annoying problem forced me to resort to web mail, such as Gmail, which I find slow, cumbersome and non intuitive. Well, finally on a new trip I had time to sit down and try to find out once and for all how to solve this annoying problem. And solve I did, but it took me 10 days of messing around which this article will save you from.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R. Paul Stevens
• Release date: Jun 26, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311890085

R. Paul Stevens

R. Paul Stevens is professor emeritus of marketplace theology and leadership at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, and a marketplace ministry mentor. He has worked as a carpenter and businessman, and served as the pastor of an inner-city church in Montreal. He has written many books and Bible studies, including Doing God's Business, Work Matters, Marriage Spirituality, The Other Six Days and Spiritual Gifts. He is coauthor (with Pete Hammond and Todd Svanoe) of The Marketplace Annotated Bibliography.

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Can’t SEND Email When Away or Abroad? Here’s How 2!

©Paul Stevens 2015

An Article in Steve’s Here’s How 2! Series

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Preamble - Ports of Call - SSL - Authentication - Desperation – Google - Not Again!! -

I’m Being Blocked! - Lo! - Professional SMTP Service - How To Use SMTP2GO with Outlook Express Using POP - How To Access Gmail with Outlook Express Using POP - How To Access Gmail with Outlook Express Using IMAP – Google Problems Sending Mail with POP or IMAP - SMTP2GO FAQ

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Preamble

I don’t know how many times I’ve travelled abroad, sat down to handle my personal and business email using my simple Outlook Express email client, only to find that for some reason I can RECEIVE email OK but I can’t SEND email. This annoying problem forced me to resort to web mail, such as Gmail, which I find slow, cumbersome and non intuitive. Well, finally on a new trip I had time to sit down and try to find out once and for all how to solve this annoying problem.

My first port (more about ports later) of call was my Internet Service Provider (ISP) in my home country.

Can you please tell me why I can never SEND an email when abroad?? To this perfectly reasonable question I got a hedged answer, to the effect that I need to use the outgoing mail server of the ISP I was currently connected to. No reason given for this, other than to say that is what you need to do. I was then given some suggestions for settings which I could try. Maybe they will work, and maybe they won’t. Can’t say. I tried the new settings, and they didn’t work.

Next I Googled this issue and got this explanation: Unfortunately, spammers and hackers have exploited port 25 so much that in recent years many email providers and internet service providers (ISPs) have started to assume that senders using these generic settings are probably spammers, and have tightened up their requirements for sending email, especially when those senders aren't physically connected to their networks.

Ports of Call

I then learn port number 25