On Thursday 21 Nov 2002 4:35 pm, Chris Edwards wrote: > I recently arranged to share cable internet with my neighbor across the > hall. Previously I had been using dail-up and KPPP to establish the > connection. Now that I am on his LAN I am always connected, can surf to > my hearts's content and recieve email. However, I cannot SEND email > without dailing up. > > Any suggestions on what setting I need to tweak to be able to send email > via my cable connection. > > Every time I try to send (via Mozilla) I get an error to the effect that > it couldn't connect to the smtp server: smtp.prodigy.net.
Your neighbour obviously is not a prodigy customer. Mail smtp servers are normally configured to only accept mails for transmission from their own customers. So when you send a mail, the prodigy mail server recongnises it has come from a non prodigy domain and rejects it. This is an anti spamming defence. The solution is to open a mail account with your neighbours ISP, and to send mails via this account. That will not stop you receiving mails from prodigy, and your return address and identity in the mail header may still give your prodigy address. derek
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