Hi Jim - That's interesting. I'd read that you needed the SMTP port to be
587 ??

So to clarify. . . . You've used port 2525 and that allows you to leave the
return e~mail addy as the none AOL account ? ? ?

Am I correct ? ? ?


Neal





"Jim" wrote:

Hi Neal

I found the solution in the end. AOL is indeed the ISP - they are blocking
all port 25 traffic (it seems to me), so nothing is going to work on that
SMTP port.

I contacted the ISP hosting the email that I am concerned with to find out
whether they have SMTP running on another port - and indeed they have it on
port 2525. Used that and bingo....

Yep - pain in the a$$!

Regards

Jim

"NealM" wrote in message
...
Hi Jim

from what I can make out if AOL is your ISP. Then the above method id the
only solution. (I can confirm that it does work). The only problem is of
course that if someone hits the "reply" button, their reply is sent to the
AOL account E~mail addy rather than the one you are (trting ! ! !) to use.

Which is a real pain in the a$$ ! ! ! !

Regards


Neal




"Jim" wrote:


"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
...
NealM wrote:

I have read about needing to use IMAP rather than POP for the
incoming mail server so when I created the profile I selected IMAP,
rather than the usual POP.

For the incoming mail server I have typed
"mail.stirlingnarrowboats.co.uk" (this is the info given by the
hosting company)
For the outgoing server I have typed "imap.aol.com"

For an IMAP account, imap.aol.com would be the incoming server. You
could
certainly use mail.stirlingnarrowboats.co.uk as an outgoing server (it
it
accepts SMTP) or as an incoming server for a POP account. You appear
to
have specified things backward.
--
Brian Tillman

I have this exact same issue for a client. Are we saying - for sure -
that
AOL will not allow you to send through their SMTP gateway unless the
email
address (from) is the AOL screen name?

Also - there must be another way round this - sending via another SMTP
server - but from what I can see AOL blocks this as well...?

Regards

Jim