NTL Email
 

Greetings,

At home we have NTL as our isp, which I have set up a email account for.

Howver I'm at uni now and on a different ISP (plus net). I have tried to configure Thunderbird to connect to NTL's SMTP server (smtp.ntlworld.com) but i cannot connect.

pop.ntlworld.com is fine though and i can receive emails.

Can someone please help me try and work out what is wrong, ta.

David

Re: NTL Email
 

Hi David :welcome: to Cable Forum

- it isn't good news, I'm afraid, you can only access the NTL smtp server from an NTL account.

you will probably find a similar situation if you try to access the Plus Net smtp from your NTL account,

- sorry

Re: NTL Email
 

Couldn't you use the NTL webmail instead?

Re: NTL Email
 

Most ISPs restrict access to their smtp servers to customers who are using their service to connect - AFAIK this is to prevent relaying of spam.

The simple way around this, if you only want to use a single email account, is to set the email program to receive mail sent to your ntl account using the ntl pop server but send mail using the Plusnet smtp server. You can also specify in the email program your "reply to" address as the ntl email account.