Re: ISP Virgin

On 28 Jul, Steve Fryatt wrote:

On 28 Jul, Chris Hall wrote

[snip]

Most ISPs allow their POP servers to be accessed via any account, not
just their own dialup. I'd expect Virgin's servers to be accessible
from your brodband connection, but you should check this with them if
it will be important.

It certainly should be.

You'll be forced to SEND mail via one of your ISPs - i.e. dial up via
Virgin or broadband via BT.

True, but unless BT limit addresses sent via their SMTP server to
those belonging to their account, you can still send email 'from' your
Virgin address via the BT SMTP gateway. Again, check this first if it
will matter to you.

[snip]

BT have two different ISP offerings.

BTinternet (residential service AKA BT Yahoo!) allow outgoing SMTP
from any email address, provided you use SMTP Authentication. POPstar
allows this - details are in the StrongHelp manual.

BTconnect (business service) does not allow mail relay by default, but
you can have a domain white-listed for mail relay. This means you
can't use another ISP email address (like virgin.com) via their SMTP
server, but if you have a domain registered with a hosting company you
can get it white-listed.

FWIW it is very cheap to register a .co/.org/.me.uk domain these days.
Mine costs me 5.88 UKP for two years. See <http://www.telivo.com/>.
I've just changed ISP, but only had to register the change of my ISP
email address with Telivo, so that email sent to my domain is now
delivered to my new ISP email address.
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