With many types of business email accounts, your computer connects to a machine called the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol server when you send messages. If you have difficulty sending messages, there ...

I work for an ISP and occasionally deal with customers who swear up and down that they need *our* outgoing email server to make email that we do not host or provide work. Example: Customer has ...

Sending email messages from your iPhone uses a different server connection than receiving email. Because of this, your iPhone can sometimes receive email but be unable to send it. Settings for ...

It appears many Mail users are having authentication problems in which they are prompted for the username and password every time a message is sent (either manually ...

July 5, 2005 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google One of the little-known freebies Gmail offers is a portable SMTP server to send mail from any network for any email ...

Email: It's been around for decades, and people are still confused about how it works--and for good reason. Setting up and troubleshooting an email account can be an irritating venture. Recently, we ...

For years, POP (Post Office Protocol) email has been a thorn in my side. Apple's email service uses the IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) protocol for email, as do many other email services.

Earthlink has been doing this for a loooong time. The reason being is that they dont want people using thier SMTP server for spamming. They prolly have it setup with mail relaying turned off, so your ...