Originally Posted By: tfabris
Originally Posted By: Archeon
This isn't really what you're asking, but just FYI: If you change your SMTP server to the one of your current ISP you should still be able to receive *and* send mails via your old alaska.net account. I've done this for three email accounts from three different IPS's at one point, and it worked no probs...


This is a good point.

There is one caveat, though. To prevent their SMTP server from being an open relay, Alaska.net might have some restrictions that prevent Doug from doing this. The possible restrictions are:

1. They might not allow IP addresses from outside of Alaska.net to send emails through their SMTP server. If that is the case, then Doug won't be able to do anything about it and he can't send mail that way.

2. They might have the SMTP server require authentication (a user name and password) in order to send mail through it. If that is the case, Doug might need to dig around in his email software to change that setting and make sure it's configured for the correct authentication before he's able to send mail that way.

I think you slightly misunderstood what was suggested there Tony. It was suggested that Doug could change his outgoing SMTP server to point to his new ISP's server instead of Alaska.net.

As such Alaska.net would have nothing* to do with whether doing that worked or not, his outgoing mail wouldn't be going anywhere near their SMTP server.

* if they are using SPF or domain signatures and the recipient's mail server also implements the same then their setup could prevent it from working, but that isn't very likely
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