Help setting up non-AOL email using AOL as ISP

[BCinSC]

It was working fine, until AOL, like many other ISPs, further restricted outgoing mail to prevent SPAM. I can still receieve emails, but cannot reply or send new. AOL support was little help. I changed outgoing mail server to smpt.aol.com, with alternate port of 587 (per their help pages), but no dice. Help?

 

[MoFunk]

I may be wrong, but I do not think you will be able to do this. When I switched over from dial up to DSL, I was unable to send mail from my old dial up account unless I dialed in because of those same restrictions. But maybe someone else will know better and jump in.

 

[BCinSC]

I am able to do it elsewhere. In current location, I am on Bellsouth DSL and have another account on Nuvox. By simply using Bellsouth smtp server when on Bellsouth connection, I can send no prob. Try to use Nuvox smtp server while on Bellsouth, and it chokes, claiming unable to relay.

 

[amdxborg]

We're doing the same thing at work on our mail server, and that's not to allow relaying, ie dialing into one isp and sending mail through another (Main reason was spam). We ran into a prob and the fix was to let the user authenticate when they dialed into another isp and wanted to get their email from work by doing this, instead of smtp.xxx.xxx we use asmtp.xxx.xxx, the thing is that the mail server has to be setup for this kinda thing, so if it is, that should work.

 

[BCinSC]

Hmm. Dunno if this mail server is setup for asmtp. Did try authenticating to AOL server, but that's where things went awry and AOL support fell down on the job.

 

[BCinSC]

?

 

[BCinSC]

More thoughts?

 

[Ken g6]

If you have another SMTP account, you can attach a reply-to header to it so people will reply to your other e-mail.

If you have no other SMTP output method, you can try a program I just discovered called YahooPOPs with Yahoo mail. There's also something for GMail called "POP goes the GMail". But I think they're both in alpha or beta.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: BCinSC
It was working fine, until AOL, like many other ISPs, further restricted outgoing mail to prevent SPAM. I can still receieve emails, but cannot reply or send new. AOL support was little help. I changed outgoing mail server to smpt.aol.com, with alternate port of 587 (per their help pages), but no dice. Help?

Positive you spelled it right? smtp.aol.com