For the year that I used AT&T dial-up with my external websites, I can say
for sure using Outlook, Eudora or anything else, if you have your external
server's e-mail address as the from, AT&T will still send your mail with the
proper from address; that which you setup in your e-mail program.
But yes, I had the problem with my laptop where when I was outside of the
office, I had to manually change my settings to another smtp server when
sending my mail.
There are a few ways around this but neither of them are fun.
1. change it everytime you move, if you find you can't send mail, check your
settings.
2. Setup two e-mail accounts with the same name and "from" address but
different smtp servers. Setup only one of those to login and get mail. When
away from AT&T dialup, switch to the non-AT&T smtp account when sending
mail. I don't know if this is as easily possible on any Wintel E-mail
programs but it's extremely easy on the Outlook Express 5 for the Mac.
3. Get a different ISP. One that doesn't charge 21.95/month if you don't
have AT&T Long Distance Service.
I found it interesting that on 5/30/00 2:02 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>> The instructions on the website showed people how to setup the pop
>> account to receive from their servers but send through the
>> local ISP's smtp server. The smtp server doesn't care what
>> return address they use in their e-mail program, it just sends
>> the mail.
>
> Actually, the SMTP may well care about the return address.
>
> In the case of the person here (using AT&T, which blocks SMTP access except to
> their SMTP server), his ability to send through Outlook stopped. AT&T would
> say that he should change the SMTP server from ours to theirs. Now that *may*
> work fine at first, provided that AT&T's SMTP server allows him to send mail
> using a non-AT&T return address.
>
> However, the problem occurs when he brings his laptop into the office. When
> he is in the office, he is using our network. Outlook, which is set to use
> AT&T's SMTP server, isn't going to be able to send through the AT&T server
> from our network for obvious reasons (not using an AT&T IP address, and not to
> or from an AT&T E-mail address).
> -Scott
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