I work for an ISP and occasionally deal with customers who swear up and down that they need *our* outgoing email server to make email that we do not host or provide work. Example: Customer has ...

With many types of business email accounts, your computer connects to a machine called the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol server when you send messages. If you have difficulty sending messages, there ...

Email: It's been around for decades, and people are still confused about how it works--and for good reason. Setting up and troubleshooting an email account can be an irritating venture. Recently, we ...

Thunderbird only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Experimental Thunderbird extension SendVia changes your outgoing SMTP mail server on the fly while composing a message. Using the extension is as simple as ...

Outgoing mail for Microsoft email programs is automatically routed through the Microsoft Exchange Server. It is possible to change this server to something else and to stop outgoing email from using ...

I have client that switched to using google to host their domain.com web site and email. they told me google will not provide a "outgoing" mail server so they have to do that themselves. They are ...

It appears many Mail users are having authentication problems in which they are prompted for the username and password every time a message is sent (either manually ...

Configuring Mercury Mail Transport System to run a LAN-based e-mail server Your email has been sent If you've been following Paul Garceau's series, then you've ...