accessing email wirelessly

[otispunkmeyer]

my dads laptop is a centino sony thing, pretty good id say, the latest dothans on the 533 bus.

now i got a D-Link wireless router, and i enabled the wireless, my dads laptop picked it up and we were surfing the web in seconds

how ever it wont do email. it wont access his Ntl account through Outlook express. says there was an error. but if i plug the network cable in the laptop it gets the mail just fine. but of course pluggin the ethernet in defeats the objective of wirelss.

i assume outlook shares internet settings with IE6, so if IE6 works why doesnt outlook?

hes running Xp home btw

 

[otispunkmeyer]

its sending but not recieving

and i just put his laptop in the DMZ and now it works...should be safe to leave it there yes? since he doesnt have it on all the time

 

[otispunkmeyer]

ok so now i put his laptop in the DMZ, the last 3 parts of the ip for the laptop is .102, but thats on the dynamic IP list. ive put it on the static ip list so that everyt time he comes home (works abroad) itll have the same ip when he gets back so everything will still work as he wants it.

this ok to do?

 

[otispunkmeyer]

help? anyone?

 

[JackMDS]

When an application works while on the DMZ and stop working otherwise it usually means that it need to use a port that is closed.

Regular pop3 email needs port 110 to be open for pop3 and port 25 open for SMTP.

If the email server uses other ports it has to be adjusted accordingly.

Link to: Cable/DSL Routers - NAT & Ports.

:sun:

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
When an application works while on the DMZ and stop working otherwise it usually means that it need to use a port that is closed.

Regular pop3 email needs port 110 to be open for pop3 and port 25 open for SMTP.

If the email server uses other ports it has to be adjusted accordingly.

Link to: Cable/DSL Routers - NAT & Ports.

:sun:

i dont understand though. it works when the ethernet cable is plugged into the laptop, but not when wireless is used. both wireless and wired can send the emails just fine, the wireless wont recieve email unless DMZ'd