Re: Communications Problem

Most likely, sprint is intercepting port 25 (SMTP) traffic and sending it all
thru their servers.  And your "reply to" address is not one of theirs so they 
are
bouncing it.  I've had this problem other places.

What I did was set up an alternate SMTP port 2525 on your work SMTP server.  
Then
in your email client, specifiy your work smtp server and port.  That way Sprint
wont come into play at all.

And I agree with David...this has nothing to do with Midrange.Com.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of David Gibbs
> Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 11:56 PM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Cc: derhamj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Communications Problem
> 
> Jack Derham wrote:
> > Normally when I am at my office I communicate over my Bellsouth DSL path,
> > but when I am on the road, which has been extensive lately, I communicate
> > using a Sprint Wireless Card.
> 
> > Using the Wireless card, I can receive emails
> > from the Midrange Lists just fine but you or more likely the communications
> > software that is being used will not allow to reply or post new questions.
> 
> Well, it certainly isn't my server ... you are not communicating
> directly with my mail server at at any point.
> 
> > It tells me that I do not have an account that corresponds to my Wireless
> > Communications path.
> 
> Well, it's obvious that you're using the wrong mail server when you are
> using the wireless.  You have a few options that I can think of.
> 
> 1. Find out what mail server you should use with the wireless provider
> and configure your mail program to use that mail server.
> 
> 2. Talk to your DSL provider and see if they allow you to use their SMTP
> server from outside the network.  Some DSL providers will use
> authenticated SMTP to allow you to post from outside their network.
> Since you indicated your DSL provider is Bellsouth, check out
> http://help.bellsouth.net/bellsouth/asp/contentview.asp?sprt_cid=769a9424%2D6d2
> 8%2D4687%2D9d35%2D7495e9f8c766
>  or http://tinyurl.com/cy9fu for information on how to use authenticated
> SMTP.
> 
> david
> 
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