Paying for SMTP service?

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Lifer
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I've got Qwest with their crappy no-smtp servers (web only) and am looking for an smtp service.

Anyone use Smtp2go or have any other suggestions?

Standard would be fine for me (up to 5 email addresses, enough to cover my most used.)

Standard 50 per day $3.99 $1.99 / month ($23.88 / year)
Freedom 150 per day $6.99 $3.49 / month ($39.88 / year)
Professional 300 per day $9.99 $4.99 / month ($59.88 / year)
 
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Lifer
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Can't you just setup a gmail account and forward your Qwest email there?
 
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MixMasterTang

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Are you sure Qwest allows outbound SMTP? ATT only allows SMTP traffic through their own SMTP servers, so even if you have a 3rd party email account you can only send outbound through the att smtp servers.
 
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Lifer
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MixMasterTang said:
Are you sure Qwest allows outbound SMTP? ATT only allows SMTP traffic through their own SMTP servers, so even if you have a 3rd party email account you can only send outbound through the att smtp servers.
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Qwest doesn't allow any outbound smtp traffic (atleast not around here), and they've 'partnered' with microsoft to direct people to their webmail.
 
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Lifer
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FoBoT said:
for that price you can just get a webhost deal and use your own domains
unless you mean waffles
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With my own domain, I'd need to use that domain's email addresses, right? The webmail accounts I have now are too established to change if I don't have to.
 
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Lifer
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jjsole said:
Qwest doesn't allow any outbound smtp traffic (atleast not around here), and they've 'partnered' with microsoft to direct people to their webmail.
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No, he's asking if they've blocked outbound SMTP traffic entirely meaning you wouldn't be able to use your third party SMTP server. Some ISPs block it to prevent spammers and spambots from sending crap from their network.
 
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Lifer
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mugs said:
No, he's asking if they've blocked outbound SMTP traffic entirely meaning you wouldn't be able to use your third party SMTP server. Some ISPs block it to prevent spammers and spambots from sending crap from their network.
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Exactly. They have smtp servers for their dial up and business customers but neither work for me.
 
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Lifer
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Fritzo said:
You a terrorist or something? Is Google going to come to get you?
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I take offense to that. I'm a freedom fighter.

Seriously tho [NSA, please quit ddos'ing, I was joking!], you never know what's going to happen with their data. Hail, they don't even know what they're going to do with it. As far as we know, woot.com will buy google and suddenly start selling things I'll actually buy again, and I'm not going to fall into that trap anymore.
 
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jjsole said:
That's what I was afraid of. I probably should get my own domain for various reasons, but I still need to keep using my current yahoo addresses etc.
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You can forward all yahoo email to your new email address. A domain costs less then 10 bucks a year, and you can get some pretty cheap hosting for your site/email. If you are interested in setting something up, PM me. I do this all the time :).
 
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Lifer
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ViviTheMage said:
You can forward all yahoo email to your new email address. A domain costs less then 10 bucks a year, and you can get some pretty cheap hosting for your site/email. If you are interested in setting something up, PM me. I do this all the time :).
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But once receiving the forwarded emails on the new domain, and then reply to one, I'll be replying from the new email address, right? This would be too confusing for the recipients...unless I could easily forge the sender whenever replying, that is.
 
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Lifer
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jjsole said:
But once receiving the forwarded emails on the new domain, and then reply to one, I'll be replying from the new email address, right? This would be too confusing for the recipients...unless I could easily forge the sender whenever replying, that is.
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You can change the reply-to, to your yahoo email.
 
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Check out fastmail.fm.

They have great SMTP offerings, not expensive at all and you can send whatever the hell you want without an issue. They also let you send from a variety of different ports to get around SMTP port blocking. :D :D :D

I was one of the lucky ones that signed up for their $15 lifetime membership one-time charge deal a few years ago. I don't think they offer it anymore. I signed up because I was unable to send e-mail from non-isp e-mail addresses at home and problems on the road accessing my isp's SMTP server from wifi hotspots. I was constantly switching my SMTP server and praying that a random coffee shop had Cox internet just so my e-mail would go through. Now, I smtp all my accounts on all my machines through the same server on port 587. It works and I haven't had to deal with e-mail sending problems in years. Check em out.
 
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legoman666

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I never realized that I should be thankful that my ISP doesn't block SMTP servers that are not their own. I am able to use all three that I have tried; theirs: smtp.fuse.net, gmail's, and my university's.
 
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Lifer
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ViviTheMage said:
You can change the reply-to, to your yahoo email.
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Very nice. Pm coming soon.

nerp said:
Check out fastmail.fm.

They have great SMTP offerings, not expensive at all and you can send whatever the hell you want without an issue. They also let you send from a variety of different ports to get around SMTP port blocking. :D :D :D

I was one of the lucky ones that signed up for their $15 lifetime membership one-time charge deal a few years ago. I don't think they offer it anymore. I signed up because I was unable to send e-mail from non-isp e-mail addresses at home and problems on the road accessing my isp's SMTP server from wifi hotspots. I was constantly switching my SMTP server and praying that a random coffee shop had Cox internet just so my e-mail would go through. Now, I smtp all my accounts on all my machines through the same server on port 587. It works and I haven't had to deal with e-mail sending problems in years. Check em out.
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Thanks for the tip. I'll look into them and can see where a different port could come in handy.

legoman666 said:
I never realized that I should be thankful that my ISP doesn't block SMTP servers that are not their own. I am able to use all three that I have tried; theirs: smtp.fuse.net, gmail's, and my university's.
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No doubt. All of a sudden 22 emails are an unmanageable sh!tload (altho probably 5 are most active.)
 
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Pantlegz

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why not use port redirection, or have your external smtp port set to something else, like 45292 and have your router take anything coming in on 45292 and direct it to port 25(?) or whatever smtp uses. The only thing you would have to do is have your clients reconfigure their mail client to talk to port 45292. Obviously this would only work if they just blocked the port.
 
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