BTBroadband SMTP access?
Gareth
Broadband service which comes without a free SMTP email account.
For the past 9 months or so I've been using a BT Openworld email address and
connecting occasionally via WAP mobile dial-up just to keep the account
alive (it otherwise expires after 90 days of non dial-up charged use).
In the past few weeks WAP dial-up doesn't seem to be working - I've tried
using a couple of different phones and despite the fact that my settings
haven't changed it doesn't work anymore.
Does anyone know if BT Openworld has recently changed dial-up authentication
so that WAP access is no longer possible?
Gareth.
mutley
"Gareth" <hotma...@dgareth.spm> wrote in message
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Gareth
"mutley" <reply.addres...@this.isp.net> wrote in message
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No, I'm having problems with the actual dial-up authentication which was
working a few weeks ago but isn't working anymore.
BTOpenworld seems to have changed something which now means that WAP dialup
isn't possible. Can anyone confirm that this is the case?
I think with the new usage limits and the lack of included SMTP access I'm
going to have to look elsewhere.
Gareth.
Sunil Sood
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> BT Broadband service which comes without a free SMTP email account.
You can use something like http://www.hotpop.com/index.jsp ?
Regards
Sunil
Gareth
"Sunil Sood" <ne...@soods.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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Thanks - I didn't know about that service.
I guess I'll have to kiss the BTOpenworld account goodbye. They've changes
something that all the WAP dial-up phones I've tried don't like but I can't
figure out what. It could be something as simple as an IP address I suppose
but there's no information available and, of course, the support service is
as much use as a chocolate teapot (telling me at one stage that they only
support Windows dial-up).
Gareth.
Peter Gradwell
wrote:
>I'm having problems obtaining a free SMTP account for the over priced BT
>Broadband service which comes without a free SMTP email account.
Indeed... I don't think there are any good options. BT seem to be
getting rid of their mail servers.
We have a help document explaining the issue and suggesting some
alternative things you could do/use to send email which you may find
helpful.
http://www.gradwell.com/knowledge/bt-broadband-smtp.php
peter
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pete devlin
Gareth <hotma...@dgareth.spm> writes
>
>No, I'm having problems with the actual dial-up authentication which
>was working a few weeks ago but isn't working anymore.
>
>BTOpenworld seems to have changed something which now means that WAP
>dialup isn't possible. Can anyone confirm that this is the case?
Are you saying that BTY provided you with a dial up number for the use
of WAP, which you could access their smtp server from? What company is
your mobile with? I access them through GPRS but can't use smtp because
I am with vodafone. I use voda's own server for this. BTY have just
changed their settings (you must know this, they sent a million emails)
and only authenticated smtp can be used now. Details on their web site.
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The Grass is greener
>On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:34:19 +0100, "Gareth" <hotma...@dgareth.spm>
>wrote:
>
>>I'm having problems obtaining a free SMTP account for the over priced BT
>>Broadband service which comes without a free SMTP email account.
>
>Indeed... I don't think there are any good options.
> BT seem to be
>getting rid of their mail servers.
What does that mean ?
The Grass is greener
What have you got set in your mobile for the mail servers ?
Gareth
"pete devlin" <spam...@secondrow.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In message <412f74b3$0$62213$ed26...@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net>, Gareth
> <hotma...@dgareth.spm> writes
>>
>>No, I'm having problems with the actual dial-up authentication which was
>>working a few weeks ago but isn't working anymore.
>>
>>BTOpenworld seems to have changed something which now means that WAP
>>dialup isn't possible. Can anyone confirm that this is the case?
>
> Are you saying that BTY provided you with a dial up number for the use of
> WAP, which you could access their smtp server from? What company is your
> mobile with? I access them through GPRS but can't use smtp because I am
> with vodafone. I use voda's own server for this. BTY have just changed
> their settings (you must know this, they sent a million emails) and only
> authenticated smtp can be used now. Details on their web site.
I mean I used a mobile phone to dial-up via WAP so that I could keep a
BTOpenworld account live without using PC dial-up.
It seems that the settings have recently changed and it appears that oddly
it's no longer possible to be authenticated via WAP dial-up. I imagine that
there must be other people who used WAP dial-up to BTOpenworld and I wonder
if anyone has found a workaround or the changed settings.
Gareth.
Peter Gradwell
<m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>> BT seem to be getting rid of their mail servers.
>
>What does that mean ?
they seem to be moving away from operating mail servers on their
consumer products. BT Yahoo mail is done by Yahoo. BT Broadband
doesn't have mail etc.
pete devlin
Gareth <hotma...@dgareth.spm> writes
>I mean I used a mobile phone to dial-up via WAP so that I could keep a
>BTOpenworld account live without using PC dial-up.
I think that whatever you did with your mobile is irrelevant. They have
had the 90 day rule for donkeys but for some reason it was never
enforced. I did nothing bar collect via pop3 from another ISP for what
must have been 18 months. Now they are finally pinging you for not
dialling in.
Nicola Redwood
"Gareth" <hotma...@dgareth.spm> wrote in message
What number are you using to dial-up? Try using the international number,
+44 121 478 9200.
If this doesn't work then try posting to btopenworld.broadband.support
Nicola
Gareth
"Nicola Redwood" <nicola_...@xxxhotmail.com> wrote in message
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Thanks for the suggestion. I have in fact been using this number for the
past year or so without any problem. Suddenly, about 3 or 4 weeks ago, this
number and others stopped working for WAP dial-up access. This problem seems
to have coincided with other changes that BT/Yahoo made to their service so
it seems too much of a coincidence.
It's just a shame that the problem has occurred at the same time as BT
Openworld has started to enforce its once in 90 days dial-up condition :-(
Gareth.