Bypass email blockade.

Many ISP block outgoing traffic to SMTP (TCP port 25) except to their own mail servers. (unless the sender is a known good mail server)

This way, they protect their network from becoming the originator of spam, sent directly to mail servers of the addressees.

The root to the problem is that port 25 for long was used both for submitting mails from users to their mail server and for forwarding mails from the outgoing server to the incoming server of the recipient. And, for forwarding, no login is needed! (By the way, you may still find servers for submission of mail, where login credentials are not needed!)

Recently, most email providers have set up an additional entry point for submission of emails (with use of login and, possibly, encryption). Typical TCP port number may be 465, 587 etc.

So:
Check with your email provider what settings they offer for email submission.
Once you update your client settings, you'll be able to send email from most places.

Workarounds:
- webmail access to your home accound.
- If you activate pop/smtp access on gmail, then you can use that from your client. With some configuration, it is even possible to indicate your ordinary email address as the sender of the mail! (Oh, and gmail via pop/smtp enforces encrypted communication, which is good, but you need to configure it correctly.)

something that could be done without so much extra work because visits to such places are usually very brief, casual and sometimes unexpected and unplanned.

It doesn't even work with GMail.

Is the Outgoing Mail Server on your E Mail Application. When you say use Optus as your ISP and you go to a place with Bigpond as their ISP you can not connect to the Optus Mail Server to send your E-Mail.

You can however go into the Proprieties of your Mail Client and alter the Outgoing Mail Server and send them through what is then the Local ISP Mail Server. I have several people who regularly travel Overseas doing Medical Work for several places who have this down to a fine art, When they check into their Hotel they get the Outgoing Mail Server details and set their Mail Client to that.

Of course others who are not technically bright just use G Mail as a Web Interface and do not use a Mail Client till they return to Base and then download all of their stored mail to their computers.

That's the way things work here in AU and surrounding regions. ;)

Col

don't open SMTP submit ports.
They're protecting you from blackmailing.

Believe it or not, but they send mails all over to port... 25.

And even the AU operator mentioned above has instructions on their help pages about where companies could turn to open up port 25 for their mail servers...

And, visiting a webmail service isn't any problem at all.
Further, if you enable smtp/pop access to your gmail account, you can, most probably, set up your client to send mail via gmail from all over the internet. And that's ok with your ISP, since they know that gmail will filter spam and demands logon credentials before anything is accepted.

In addition, gmail was among the first mail providers to enforce encrypted connection for pop/smtp/imap.

The Mail Header should be the same as you would normally send as it's originating from your ISP's Mail Server not the Access Points Web ISP.

Col

But you can copy the Sent Mail from the Web Mail folder to your In Box and download it to your Local computer.

However CC it to yourself is probably just as easy.

No matter what you should always keep a copy of everything that you send just to be safe. ;)

Col

But my email provider offers a very basic web-interface. It just sends off the mail. Full stop.

I can't find any developer credits, but it is just a quick-hack web frontend for displaying the contents in your pop account and sending off emails via smtp. It will memorize your name and banner text, but not even any address book.

Even Singtel doesn't provide such Basic Web Mail Apps here. ;)

Actually I haven't seen anything like that for ages even the cheap Dial Up ISP's here provided better. Granted they used a Nix System but even the Red Hat 7 offered better than that. ;)

Col

with a hotmail connector. It has been available to me on Office 2007 and Office 2010.

I have yahoo email forwarded to other email accounts too. Anyway I always try to avoid webmail if I can.

Are you saying GMail POP should encounter no blockade?

Before my email provider added a different port for "SMTP submit", I had 3 extra accounts in Outlook Express/Window Mail. I only used them for sending emails and had (on purpose) non-working settings for incoming email.

So, when I was in a location where outgoing connections to port 25 where blocked, I simply changed the sending account to correspond with my current internet connection.

Now I'm down to one extra. In case my normal provider should be temporarily down, I can easily switch over to submitting mails via gmail (directly from my client).