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HI Chuck
I totally agree with the nice explanation given by u for the email proble
however referring to the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 329918 It also
depends if u r acessing internet Behind a NAT router ,which being used for
internet connection sharing in that case some setting have to vbe made at
the NAT router end also.T-N if u know such configuration please let me know
we have some other settings on the devices that we can make
vivek
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"Chuck" <none@example.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 10 May 2004 17:26:06 -0700, T-N
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> >OK so I know I'm a rookie but why is it that when I'm on some wireless
network connection and on some LAN connections I can receive my mail, surf
the web but I can't send my mail. On others it works fine. Is it a setting
on my computer that I can change or is it a setting on their systems?
>
> If you're referring to using different wireless LANs to connect to the
internet
> and use services, I would suspect that it depends upon the ISP providing
the
> internet service to the LAN in question.
>
> Surfing the internet is a basic service that is provided to everybody who
> connects to an ISP.
>
> When you receive email, you connect to your ISP's POP server. You
probably
> authenticate with a username and password. Your ISP lets you connect to
their
> POP server from any internet connection, since you are authenticating with
the
> userid and password setup in their system.
>
> When you send email, you try and connect to your ISP's SMTP server. SMTP
> servers don't always authenticate connection just with userid and
password, some
> ISPs set them up to authenticate by IP address of connection being made.
If you
> try to connect to your ISP's SMTP server thru another ISP's address space
(which
> could happen if you're not connecting from YOUR wireless LAN), the server
> refuses you connection.
>
> With the problem of open SMTP servers being used to relay spam (last years
spam
> distribution technique), most responsible ISPs have setup their SMTP
servers to
> only send email from connections in their address space. So you can only
send
> email thru your ISP's server when you are connecting to the internet thru
your
> ISP - thru your LAN, or others who happen to use your ISP also.
>
> Assuming that the ISP servicing the LAN in question also provides SMTP
> authenticating by IP address, you would simply have to find out the name
of the
> SMTP server for that ISP, and configure it into your email client. You
should
> be able then to send email.
>
> Cheers,
> Chuck
> Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
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