Comments on: Three outgoing mail fixes for Mac users on the go

By: pierre

pierre — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:31:21 +0000

Hi.
please send me the incoming and outgoing Gmail for my MAC. desktop………..thx.pierre

By: Massimo

Massimo — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:41:25 +0000

For the really nerdy of you out there, I’ve written an AppleScript application, that automatically changes SMTP mail servers according to two (or more) Airport names. The only drawback is that I haven’t had the time to make a proper GUI version, so you’ll have to write the nitty gritty details in the code yourselves and save it as an application. But documentation has been written and is provided! ;-)

Get it here

Perhaps in the future, I’ll make this a fully fledged app or plugin for Mail… :-)

By: matonmacs

matonmacs — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:21:08 +0000

I have a paid account on fastmail.fm. For a one time fee of $14.95 I get access to a reliable SMTP server on both ports 25 & 26 (many ISPs block access to the standard port 25 to deter spammers). I highly recommend fastmail.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:56:47 +0000

I’ve spent years looking for a solution to this problem. I finally found it with the DynDNS Mailhop Outbound service. For $10 a year, you get secure, unlimited SMTP relaying. It works well, and prevents tons of headaches!

http://www.dyndns.com

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:37:57 +0000

You our mail server with dynamic ip wouldn’t work due to SPF/spam filter/ black lists policies and many other God knows spam filtering techniques which are in place right now. Even if you will have 25 smtp port open for outgoing connection. Which is closed in most public networks. It was a good solution back couple of years ago, but if you do so today, you message would be filtered in most cases. As administrator I had a tough task of getting legitimate mailserver to be recognised as a proper sender. Use gmail or .mac accounts or proper VPN access to your home/work network.

By: Christiaan

Christiaan — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:21:04 +0000

Why not just use SMTP authentication?

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:47:19 +0000

So, being your own mail server would stop you from trying to access the out going mail port and instead act as your own server and send them message over the internet through port 80 I assume? Is there any way to do this with incoming mail?

I have a personal mail account and my office blocks all pop and imap traffic, but I still have internet access. Right now I just use .Mac’s webmail interface but it would be awesome if there was some way around this and I could continue using Mail.app at work.

By: Svetlio

Svetlio — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:44:32 +0000

Go to gmailaccountnow.blogspot.com and get your gmail account now.