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From: "Charlie de Courcy" <Charles.De-Courcy@???>
To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List" <hampshire@???>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] pop.ntlworld.com
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> Simon Huggins said the following on 25/01/08 12:05:
>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:50:14AM +0000, Charlie de Courcy wrote:
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>>> James Ashburner said the following on 25/01/08 11:45:
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>>>> Charlie de Courcy wrote:
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>>>>> however I cannot send mail using SMTP.
>>>>>
>>>> They don't allow you to relay mail through their servers if you're
>>>> not on an NTL/Virgin connection, but I'd have thought the reason for
>>>> that is fairly obvious ;)
>>>>
>>> It certainly used to work (in the last few months),
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>> Are you sure?
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>> That would mean they were running an open SMTP relay which would be
>> noticed by spammers and abused and probably blacklisted around the
>> world.
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>> Did you change anything in your mail config mean time? It's more likely
>> that they are running an SMTP server that allows you to authenticate and
>> that you either changed your config or that they started rejecting your
>> username/password for other reasons (account expired, password changed
>> etc).
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> Pretty sure so....! I used to use a different client at work to
> simultaneously send/receive personal emails.
> Yes I had to use authentication, however this did work. Now they appear to
> have shut access completely.
> I use the same laptop on both my home (virgin) and work networks and it
> only works on the former regardless of SMTP server settings.
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> Charlie
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Thanks for all the replies. For some reason, they've arrived at me out of
order in my inbox which makes untangling them a bit awkward.
Can I just confirm that a few of you can ping pop.ntlworld.com with no
trouble?
Cheers
Rob
