LifeDrive/VersaMail - can't send mail

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I configured my VersaMail incoming and outgoing mail servers identical
to my desktop computer,

pop.prodigy.yahoo.com

and

smtp.prodigy.yahoo.com

respectively.

Incoming mail works fine. But when I try to send mail, I get "Error 502:
command not implemented."

On my desktop computer the outgoing mail server port number is blank.
VersaMail requires an outgoing mail server port number between 1 and
32767. I have the default port number 25 set.

"Use Secure Connection (SSL)" is UNchecked.
"Use authentication (ESMTP)" is checked.

I connect to the internet via T-Mobile at Starbucks.

Any ideas? Please cc: replies to rjmatter@prodigy.net.

Thanks!

-Bob Matter

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Robert J. Matter wrote:

> I might have found the solution to my problem.
>
> According to Prodigy help at
> http://help.sbcglobal.net/article.php?item=4640,
>
> "As announced in the September 2004 Member newsletters, SBCIS began
> filtering direct outgoing email connections using Port 25 (SMTP) to
> non-SBCIS/Yahoo mail servers from Members using dynamic DSL and Dialup
> connections. Port 25 filters are widely used by many ISPs to combat junk
> email and spam from mis-configured and virus-infected computers...
> Contact your mail hosting provider for information about using Port 587
> for sending authenticated outgoing email. Since December 1998, Port 587
> has been the Internet standard (RFC2476) port for authenticated email
> submission for mail clients and is supported by most major mail hosting
> providers."
>
> I have changed my VersaMail outgoing mail server port to 587 from the
> default 25 and will try that later today when I can get to a wifi
> hotspot. It seems peculiar VersaMail would use the default port number
> of 25 if that port number is widely blocked.

Well that was the problem. I sucessfully sent e-mail after changing the
VersaMail outgoing mail server port no. to 587 from the default port no. 25.

-Bob Matter
Chicagoland