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TOT BT Broadband and External email accounts
Hi All,
Sorry i've been a bit quiet, I have been listening. My wife is being driven round the bend by BT Broadband toyal yahoos or whatever they are called this month who every so often change someting (like the name of their outgoing mail server! Without giving any warning to their customers, or even to their outsourced Indian sub- continent support droids. The cynic in me would say that this policy will make them millions from calls to their support lines! Anyways, I have managed to get outgoing mail going a couple of weeks ago by making sure Eudora was using the BT Internet account to login to the smtp server, and i've fixed it again today by spending half an hour in a maze of twisty little passages all different which is bt yahoo's website and "verifying" my wifes connectfree account. I did ring Connectfree's support at one point, but was very disappointed to find that instead of the very knowledgeable northern lad i'd gotten last time, I got someone in the punjab who answered the phone as Tiscali tech support :+(( Anyways, the question! At one point the BT support droid said "well in that case, Connectfree will have to provide you with your own smtp server" Which got me to thinging (OK, three questions) 1. Would running our own smtp server on one of our XP workstations protect us from any further stupidity on the part of BT. 2. Would it just work with BT's network without any configuration on their part, or would it open up another can of worms WRT getting it verified or whatever. 3. Would I have to get Connectfree or any other organisation to reconfigure anything? 4. How difficult is it to set up an SMTP server? 5. If it's worth going ahead does anyone here have any recommendations for a particular product (pref free, definately to run on XP (yes, I know i'd be better off building a lunix box, but the management won't allow any more boxes in the house (no, not even in the loft or the shed))). OK, 5 questions :+)) |
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