Someone has to!

Seriously though - we do provide rather good email platforms (yes, I'm biased ) - subject to minimum order volume of 5 mailboxes. We don't provide a stand alone SMTP service for the purposes of sending only.

Hope that makes sense?

Did someone mention Nildram? Happy days...

Iain

While my daughter was at uni and now working away from home
I used google.com SMTP server =
smtp.gmail.com
port 587
on her laptop and that has worked well for the last five years.
at home we all use our isp SMTP server.

See . https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how...

Edited by APTMAN (Wed 27-Apr-16 14:46:55)

Thanks to all for some useful comments and things to try.

Andrue, Nice to hear of someone else using Vpop3. Just so you know the latest version works perfectly on Windows 10. I upgraded my very old version (home) after deciding to shut down my mail machine and just run it on the PC I use for everything else and it is working like a dream.

packetman, I send though my ISP, having set the email address in my mail client(s) to match the domain, seems to work perfectly and avoids the spam designation.

Edited by philippercival (Thu 28-Apr-16 13:04:01)

+1 for SPF on my domain, did exactly the same, was able to send without any 5xx errors.

Also stopped getting the bounce back spam emails for my domain into the domain bucket email account

In reply to a post by iand:

+1 for SPF on my domain, did exactly the same, was able to send without any 5xx errors.

Also stopped getting the bounce back spam emails for my domain into the domain bucket email account

Yeah, like I said we was like [censored], we even tried DKIM where we would hash up the email, but then realised that would only help to detect if anyone tampered with the email etc.

But with SPF that is saying that the reverse domain lookup for the actual IP address of the server that is doing the actual sending of the email is allowed to send you emails.

So the OP will have to set up one or two DNS records for the domain of the server that is sending the actual emails i.e. the reverse lookup of the IP of the server, then a DNS records for each domain that is having the emails being send by the server.

But yeah, that sorted our email being flagged as spam, as well as stopping the 5xx error codes and now none of our emails are being stopped.

For my Game Dev Stuff which contains certain information I then Hash some of the email fields that I don't want the man in the middle or 3rd parties to alter using DKIM.

So end result, I am happy, our users are happy and our users that we host web and emails services for are happy

Paul

In reply to a post by packetman:

I use my ISP's at home, which is fine. However if I'm away and use my phone or laptop, I am via a different connection so can't use it.

Who is your ISP? Most ISPs' SMTP is usable home and away with suitable jiggling with its port.