On Friday 25 January 2008 17:00:01 Rob Malpass wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
>
> > 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:
> >>> James Ashburner said the following on 25/01/08 11:45:
> >>>> Charlie de Courcy wrote:
> >>>>> 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),
> >>
> >> Are you sure?
> >>
> >> That would mean they were running an open SMTP relay which would be
> >> noticed by spammers and abused and probably blacklisted around the
> >> world.
> >>
> >> 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).
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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
I can ping pop.ntlworld.com via my NTL cable connection at home and via my
works leased line supplied by Newnet
Tim
