re: need hassle free mail server Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 2:02 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Steve B (1595 messages posted) I use Outlook with my Yahoo mail account. It's not a free account. ISPs allow you to send them mail via port 25 but many of them don't allow traffic using port 25 to get past them to the rest of the internet. It's an anti-spam thing. So to use mail servers other than the ISP server you need to use other than port 25. On Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 9:53 pm, Ms. Eagle wrote: > >You must not understand the concept of web-based email server, because you're wrong. >Yahoo and Hotmail, i.e. Windows Live are web based email servers. > >You can't use a free Yahoo email acct. with an email client, without a third party >program installed and running... as of several years ago. > >--"Most ISPs these days block the usual SMTP port (port 25)" > >My ISP, Verizon, uses port 25, so I don't know where you get your misleading info. > > > > >color="006699">Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File Written in response to: re: need hassle free mail server (Ms. Eagle: Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 9:53 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] need hassle free mail server (Pat: Sat, Sep 6, 2008, 6:36 am) re: need hassle free mail server (Johnb33: Sat, Sep 6, 2008, 7:56 am) re: need hassle free mail server (Steve B: Sat, Sep 6, 2008, 8:32 am) re: need hassle free mail server (Ms. Eagle: Sat, Sep 6, 2008, 9:53 pm) re: need hassle free mail server (Steve B: Sun, Sep 7, 2008, 2:02 am) re: need hassle free mail server (Ms. Eagle: Sat, Sep 6, 2008, 9:47 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum