Question about Email @Sentech

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Hi,

I know this is a horrid question, but I had my Tiscali ADSL email for a long time after I got Sentech, well, up until now...

so im wondering if we get an email account through sentech, and if we do :

1) What is the Mail server stats?

2) if its PoP , whats the SMTP, POP addresses.

ta.

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yes you do Kemo.

your username and password is the same ones you use in the dialer.

pop: pop.sentechsa.com
smtpy: smtp.sentechsa.com

your email address is [email protected]

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Does Sentech have instructions for the use of the mail boxes anywhere?
 
Also, has anyone been having trouble with sending email via a 3rd party SMTP server? I keep getting an error about no recipient specified, 503 I think.
 
The sentech mailboxes also have a web-based interface. Go to mail.sentechsa.com and enter your username and password.
 
The SMTP (outgoing email) servers at most ISPs do not require explicit authentication, because they expect you to already be authenticated at logon. Thus trying to send via a 3rd party smtp server will generally fail, because you are connecting from outside their server system. You either have to be already directly connected to their servers (e.g. authentication during dial-in logon), or have been very recently connected to their POP3 (incoming email) server, which always require authentication. Unfortunately, Microsoft Outlook and Outlook express always do a send first, and then a receive of email, and you can't change this to "receiver before send".

There is a workaround that sometimes works. Set up a duplicate mail account with exactly the same information as the first account. When you "send and receive" it will do a "send and receive" from the first account and then a "send and receive" from the second account. The first send will fail because the server doesn't know who you are. The receive will authenticate you with the POP3 server. The second send will succeed, because it now knows who you are.
 
Dunno about Outlook, but in Outlook Express you can set your outbound to autenticate when trying to send: (Tools-&gt;Accounts-&gt;Properties-&gt;Servers-&gt;Outgoing Mail Server)

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No thats not it, because I've used this server since forever ... worked fine with other ISPs before Sentech came along and ruined my life so to say. You can ask outlook to logon to the incoming mail server before sending. I've Googled around and it seems that a lot of ISPs block port 25 (no relaying smtp traffic), some of the guys with this problem then rather connect on port 465 which is used when you connect to smtp server via ssl, but this doesn't seem to work with Sentech.
 
How did you come to know about the webmail? I've looking and I don't see anything for the use of the mail accounts from Sentech's side ...
 
I have never tried setting the authentication parameters for the outgoing smtp server. Why do you want to use a 3rd party smtp server anyway? I still use my mweb (actually pixie) mailboxes for incoming email, so have my incoming parameters set to the pixie pop3 server. It doesn't matter where your outgoing email actually goes through, so I use smtp.sentechsa.com for all outgoing email - never had a problem.
 
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Actually, in MS outlook, select mail account, once inside, click the "more settings" button,
-&gt; outgoing server tab
-&gt; check server requires authentication
-&gt; select log onto incoming before sending

But you'rre right, much less hassle just to send through sentechs smtp[:p]
 
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