SMTP Relay Service

Anyone have any recommendations/advice regarding a good/reliable SMTP Relay Service? Am I asking in the right place?

A happy PlusNet broadband customer for many years, and still happy with them. Need wireless access when away from home so I signed up with BT OpenZone

I faced this problem while working away in Sweden during the summer. The solution I came up with was to sign up for a free google mail account. Once signed up you can use their SMTP server to send mail via. As you need to authenticate to the server it allows you to send no matter which connection you are connected via.

This changed recently. If you set your mail client to use authentication using your main username and password (not username+mailbox) you should be able to send whether connected to Plusnet or not.

As jelv said, you can now use relay.plus.net as an authenticated server. Remember, though, NOT to tick any boxes that say use Secure Password Authentication (SPA).

Alslo, as jelv said, you must use your main username and password (the ones you use to log into the PlusNet website) and not the username and password for any extra mailboxes set up (although, for the extra mailboxes ths only applies to the OUTGOING server - incomimg server settings would still have username+mailbox and the relevant password).

jelv/paulby

Thanks for that.. Is this now officially supported? i.e. I know it works, but I thought it was something that as being trialled/might be withdrawn?

As far as I am aware it's not going to be withdrawn as it only works with paid for accounts not free accounts.

Ian

Thank you all... Brilliantly simple suggestion, doesn't cost anything. Have made changes to Outlook accounts. Will go find a Hotspot from which to test tomorrow!

Unless major problems crop up I would think this option is unlikely to be withdrawn. However what is likely is that an 'allow roaming' button will be introduced on the portal at some time. That will only require selecting once so isn't an issue.

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I understand that PlusNet currently have an unsupported work around, but I want a service that I know isn

Below is an official, if not exactly helpful, response from PlusNet support:

We do not allow use of our SMTP server from none plus.net connections, you will need to alter this to the ISP that you are connected to, if you are only using this now and then, it will be worth while for you to use our web mail facility that can be found at the link below, this can be used on any connection

So, off to AuthSMTP it is...