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ehenn Posts: 16

I am going insane trying to get my email to work on my phone. My service provider is AT&T, and my phone is an

T68m. I have set up an email account with Earthlink that is myphone#@earthlink.net. It will download mail, but sending always fails. I read in here that I should try using the SMTP server of my service provider, but I do not know what the AT&T smtp server is.

I even tried making a free email account. The rare times it does work it takes forever.

Can somebody please help me? I love this phone, but am starting to miss my old one... I didn't have to configure anything to get email working before.

Thank you,
Eric
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Posted: 2002-04-02 22:41:00
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Lethal Posts: 92

Correct, YOU MUST use the SMTP service of the provider your connecting with (not necessarily the POP3 account your picking up e-mail from), this is normally for security reasons so ONLY those that connect via that provider can use the SMTP service to send e-mails.
Now, if your picking up from Earthlink and connecting via AT&T, you will without doubt need to use AT&T's SMTP service to send.

To make matters worse/more complicated, Earthlink block port25 from using an alias SMTP (i.e. your very own), [very anti-competitive of them].
So even if you had your very own smtp.MYOWNDOMAIN.com (as I do), if you dialed up with Earthlink, you still would not be able to send! (maybe AT&T do the same ? - It seems to be a USA thing!)

I would:

1. Contact AT&T for the SMTP option they might have.
OR
2. Try Eartlink's dialup/connection and SMTP service
OR
3. Find a freebie "connect only" ISP that offers dialup & SMTP service *

* In the UK there are many like this (http://www.freewire.co.uk for instance)
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Posted: 2002-04-03 00:08:00
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ehenn Posts: 16

I was just wondering if anybody knows of any good free smtp servers I can use? Or maybe a free email account I can sign up for that has pop3/smtp access.

Thank you,
Eric
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Posted: 2002-04-03 02:14:00
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jh67 Posts: > 500

Well, Yahoo does work, as long as its a Yahoo.com email adress.

You need to look into your yahoo.email and check the "OPTIONS",..here you can "enable POP3".

See this topic as well : http://esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=1726&forum=14&48

And there should be some other topics as well on this subject in here

Jan
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Posted: 2002-04-03 02:42:00
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Lethal Posts: 92

ehenn : Read my post once more (above!), I mention a company that provides free POP3/SMTP service
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Posted: 2002-04-03 09:12:00
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ehenn Posts: 16

Okay, I went to www.freewire.co.uk and got the pop and smtp servers. I have no idea what to do from there. Freewire does not give me an email address, so what do I use as my email address? I just tried setting up my earthlink pop3 account, but with smtp.freewire.co.uk as my smtp server and it fails when sending. What am I doing wrong?

BTW, I did get it working fine with the free account I got from www.lycos.co.uk. Including SMTP/POP3 servers. It's just that the server has been really slow. I sent myself a test email yesterday at 5:00 pm but didn't receive it until today at around 3:00 pm.
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Posted: 2002-04-03 10:19:00
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Lethal Posts: 92

1. Are you dialing Freewires number ? 0845 0880088
2. ONLY if above is correct can you use smtp.freewire.co.uk
3. To obtain a POP3 account, just sign up (it's free of course)

Other than that, I don't see why you can't do it?
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Posted: 2002-04-03 21:33:00
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ehenn Posts: 16

No, I'm not dialing any number for email. I am going to the messages option in my menu, going into email, and selecting "send & receive". I think that uses the AT&T gsm/gprs service.

Am I supposed to dial into an ISP to send email?

The AT&T site has no help.
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Posted: 2002-04-03 23:45:00
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bgdido Posts: 88

I have 3 free mail accounts but last month i can't send emails,just receive This post was posted from a T39
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Posted: 2002-04-04 00:04:00
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Lethal Posts: 92

Oh I see, no I'm just using a local dialup (it's free for me since I get so many free calls anyway) ... so it's no different than my PC for picking up & sending e-mail.

Not sure about gsm/gprs service, I'm still sure you've got to find a SMTP server which allows any outsider to use it (which essentially is what your doing).

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Posted: 2002-04-04 00:56:00
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