Hey Guys,

Wasn't sure where to post this...

One of my email addresses can't send email to any msn.com account. It get's returned everytime with an error that states:

553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)

Our email is hosted by REW, so I hope you can help.
Thanks,

Liz Morganroth

Hi Liz,

This issue is caused by attempting to relay mail through our server. This happens when you send mail from your computer ( through an email client )
Due to the amount of spammers on the internet - Our server does not allow mail to be relayed.

The solution to this problem would be to use your ISP's SMTP server to send outgoing mail.



Thank you,

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to further this, my ISP is shaw.ca so I would have

Incoming mail: mail.mydomain.com
Outgoing mail: mail.shaw.ca

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Hi Aaron,

The problem is that my ISP is Cox and they don't allow me to send email from their outgoing server unless I am at home. If I am my office, I can't relay mail from the cox SMTP mail server, if I am at home I can. To work around this, Thomas had me put mail.desertswgroup.com as my SMTP server. this works unless I am home and then I can't send mail. I work from home 50% of the time, so it is getting a little frustrating.

I know this isn't your issue, it is Cox's issue, I just don't understand why they have this rule... Grr. I call them and they basically tell me "to bad, this is our rule to keep the bad guys out" .

My workaround right now is to switch the SMTP settings to be pop.west.cox.net when I am home and mail.desertswgroup.com when I am home. A huge pain, but I don't see anyother way, do you?

Liz

I assume you are using Outlook.

With that in mind, why not create 2 email addresses. One has the home outgoing, one has the non-home outgoing. Name them appropiately, and just switch between them depending where you are.

My outlook has 3 email addresses, all are brandon@ something. I just go up to accounts, and select which to email from.

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I have been doing that, but it seems to cause confusion with my clients. I received 3 emails from 3 seperate people asking why my email address changed and where should they send mail to, etc..

I just can't win!

What I'm saying, is use the same email address, same inbound for both accounts.

Just have them differ in the outgoing server.

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Correct. This solution would be transparent to your recipients.

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