Outgoing email authentication

Luke7777

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Replaced Windows Live Mail with Outlook. Previously had authentication issues to gmail for instance which I had resolved in WLM.
Errors like " Your email has been blocked because the sender is unauthenticated." in Gmail or "550 (IP) is not allowed to send mail from mweb.co.za" if I just send to myself
Trying to resolve same with Outlook, no go. Tried smtp.afrihost.co.za and mail.afrihost.co.za, port 465 (i think) . My incoming server is pop3.mweb.co.za. Ticked Tried "using same credentials as incoming server" . . Then getting this dialog, and doesn't go past that. For the life of me, I can't remember what I did in WLM.

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This will cause all sorts of SPF/DKIM/DMARC issues, why do you not use the mweb.co.za SMTP settings, this will be the solution, or get your own domain and email address and use that and set a forward on your mweb email address to your domain email and be sorted for life?

You will also not be able to use port 587 with authentication, your mweb email address will not be able to log into the afrihost mail servers in order to use port 587, i am not sure maybe afrihost will replay mail if you use their internet on port 25 but this will bring SPF/DKIM/DMARC into play.
 
Unfortunately from a technical perspective(at least currently), you somehow used the Mweb SMTP settings, trying to get anything else working would be futile, and at least not a long term solution, have you tried smtpauth.mweb.co.za with the above ports and smtp authentication enabled?
 
Unfortunately from a technical perspective(at least currently), you somehow used the Mweb SMTP settings, trying to get anything else working would be futile, and at least not a long term solution, have you tried smtpauth.mweb.co.za with the above ports and smtp authentication enabled?
Yip, as I've said above , I did try the MWEB one with both ports, tried "Use credentials from incoming server" as well as supplying it myself. All I can remember from the WLM fix is that ti was an easy one :)
 
Try smtp.afrihost.co.za/smtp2.afrihost.co.za/.com with port 25. Turn off SSL and do not use authentication

If you are on the Afrihost network, that should work.
 
nope...that's what it was. Gets rejected with the messages in the 1st post.
The image comes up because it is trying to authenticate on that server.

Make sure you use the mweb imap/pop3 settings.
 
You either use the SMTP from your mail provider with authentication.

Or you use the SMTP from your ISP without authentication.

The first makes the most sense unless it’s a desktop that won’t change location.
 
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