Email settings for mobile broadband

[Visco]

Hi, just a general query. I'm up and running on 3Ireland Mobile Broadband and I'm getting SPAM errors when trying to send email out. Receiving is no problem.

I'm running Thunderbird on a Mac and 3Ireland make some suggestions...

1) Use 'SMTP Authentication'
2) Use authentication on a different port
3) Use 3irelands mail relay

Just wondering what you suggest is the best option, or is it simply a case of whatever works?

Thanks!

[blacknight]

I'd recommend option 3.

It will cause you fewer issues

option 1 is available, but won't help if the IP you're using is listed in The Spamhaus Project

option 2 is not something we offer at present

[Visco]

I went ahead and set up option 3 alright and it was working fine yesterday but today is giving me an 'xbl.spamhaus' error. I'll have to contact 3Ireland and find a workaround!

Thanks!

[blacknight]

If you set your SMTP to be theirs you shouldn't get a SpamHaus error..

What are you using to send email? ie. which software client?

[Visco]

I'm using Thunderbird, on a Mac. It's actually just a connection error I now get when I use their SMTP server, rather than a spam error, so I guess their server must be down or something?

I'll keep trying

[Visco]

Update...

It seems that the SMTP server mail-relay.3ireland.ie only works with Apple Mail, and not Thunderbird so that was my problem.

They gave me a different SMTP server to try with Thunderbird, smtp.nd.edu, which I thought was strange as it's the University of Notre Dame's server. Why would they be telling me to route my email through that

Anyway it didn't work because she was telling me to make sure I turned on Authentication but then kept telling me that I didn't need a password for the server, which it kept asking me for. Very frustrating trying to explain myself over and over.

Anyway, long and short of it is I have to switch over to using Apple Mail.

[blacknight]

Hmm. That's bizarre.

Apple Mail and Thunderbird are just email clients, so you should be able to use them interchangeably - I do