In a great example of Utopians helping Utopians, hosting customer and Labs moonlighter Tim Hamilton has whipped up a couple screencasts showing how to make the changes to your SMTP server port settings described in our last post. If your ISP is blocking your outbound port 25, Tim has videos for both Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird that will help you send outgoing mail on port 587 instead.
Tim happens to be a Windows® user; we’re working on a screencast for Apple Mail to add soon.
Note that if your ISP is not creating problems sending your domain’s email through Utopian.net SMTP servers on the usual port 25 (and very few customers have run into this so far), then this post, and these screencasts, do not apply to you. If you’re not having problems sending email, no change is needed. If you are having problems with SMTP on port 25, closely read the posts tagged with RFC 2476, and carefully watch Tim’s appropriate screencast for your email client, before changing any settings.
If you need more help with Utopian.net email service for your domain, contact support@utopian.net.
