Sending Saix Mail While Using IS

[Solitude]

When Afrihost came with their cheap bandwidth I finally took the big step to leave Mweb. Well I'm using both at the moment up until the time when everyone and every place know that I am not using the Mweb email address anymore.

For some things I still have to use the Mweb email though, at least for a short while.

My problem is that when I'm using the Afrihost connection (IS) I can't send any mail using the mweb email address because it gives me an error that only Saix may use the Saix smtp.

Is there some way that I can make it so that I can send mails using the Mweb address using an IS connection? Maybe change the smtp to something else, but what?

Haha I hope all of that made sense.

 

[rurapente]

it doesnt care who you sending AS, it cares who you sending it to - compared to who you connected to.

so if you're dialled to the IS (Afrihost) account just use smtp.isdial.net and send, even if its from your Mweb setup, it doesnt matter.

When you "dial" back to Mweb, switch to Mwebs SMTP (smtp.mweb.co.za ??) and you can send as Mweb user or the Afrihost user.

 

[Solitude]

Thanks rurapente. So there's no way to use one smtp for both accounts?

 

[rurapente]

hmmm. no. unless you install a "free" windows SMTP server on your local machine, one that allows you to specify two "forwarding" servers. So when one fails it defaults to another.

Or, if you have the money buy an online SMTP service with a username/password that doesnt care which network u connected to. GoDaddy.com had a really cheap option that i took.

 

[Solitude]

Thanks for your help rurapente.

 

[bwana]

Thanks rurapente. So there's no way to use one smtp for both accounts?

Use gmail's SMTP server.

http://lifehacker.com/111166/how-to-use-gmail-as-your-smtp-server

 

[Rodent-Boy]

Use gmail's SMTP server.

http://lifehacker.com/111166/how-to-use-gmail-as-your-smtp-server

+1. I use the Gmail SMTP server and I can send from either IS or SAIX. I can also send if I'm connected via Vodacom 3G or even Neotel at home.

I can do the same using my Webafrica SMTP server, btw.

 

[Rodent-Boy]

Hmmm ... I've never even noticed the "drawback" mentioned in the thread that bwana linked. Interesting.

Also, I've found that some servers block gmail addresses. I've encountered this issue with two of my contacts, which is why I have one account set up with the Webafrica SMTP server.

 

[bboy]

A typical smtp server will work as follows.

It will allow anyone on its network to send an email through it.
It MAY allow anyone on any network to send an email through it for its own domain.

IE any saix user (AXXESS,MWEB,TELKOM etc etc) can use the SAIX smtp because the saix smtp says "hey, the connection is from a saix ip, i'll accept that"

or

A connection comes through,the smtp server says "Hmm, this is a foreign IP, but they are trying to send to [email protected] which is my own domain, so i'll accept"

Then there can be a username and password setting as well, this is so the smtp will be able to verify you and will accept the email no matter what network you are on(But this is hardly used in the real world).

So in SA we are stuck in the boat of "If we are not on the same network, the smtp is not going to trust you and therefore will not relay your email"

 

[Pada]

You can always dial both MWeb & Afrihost connections and then just route the SAIX SMTP traffic via the MWeb connection and let your Afrihost connection be the default route for all other traffic.

 

[Solitude]

Awesome stuff. Thanks guys. I'll start by trying Gmail's SMTP server.

 

[bees]

If your email address is [email protected] then you can use relay.mweb.co.za, with Outgoing Mail server auth option ticked, using same settings as incoming mail server.