I have a motorola Q with windows mobile 5 and outlook. I just
switched isps from att/yahoo to optonline.

for some reason i cant get the optonline smtp servers to accept smtp
email transmissions with outlook. pop works fine. i never had this
problem with at/tyahoo or hotmail setup.

Has anybody encountered this and figured it out?

optonline does have a mobile web email site which is pretty worthless,
it limits the total length of an email that you can send for example.
optonline tech support has told me they don't troubleshoot mobile
email problems. i am connecting with my phone through my verizon evdo
dataplan and there is plenty of signal and bandwidth avaialble.

At 19 Jul 2008 10:09:33 -0400 polecanoe wrote:
> I have a motorola Q with windows mobile 5 and outlook. I just
> switched isps from att/yahoo to optonline.
>
> for some reason i cant get the optonline smtp servers to accept smtp
> email transmissions with outlook. pop works fine. i never had this
> problem with at/tyahoo or hotmail setup.

Some ISPs refuse SMTP from "foreign" providers to block spam. You're
trying to access the Optonline SMTP server from Verizon instead of Optonline.


To help with this, most cellular providers ofer an alternate SMTP server
for mobile use.

I don't use Verizon, but I found this:

http://www.c3sd.com/email_servers_ports.php:

....which says:

Verizon Wireless SMTP Server
VZWMAIL.com
SMTP PORT: 25
Verizon Wireless has also provided an outgoing server (vzmail.net) However,
you must register with vtext.com first and then follow these instructions:
1. Set up an account with vtext.com and establish a username and password
for the website.
2. Select Advanced options for SMTP
3. Select SMTP Authentication
4. Under username enter yourphonenumber@vzwmail.net
5. Under password enter your password for vtext.com


Good luck!

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:33:14 -0600, Todd Allcock
<elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote:

>At 19 Jul 2008 10:09:33 -0400 polecanoe wrote:
>> I have a motorola Q with windows mobile 5 and outlook. I just
>> switched isps from att/yahoo to optonline.
>>
>> for some reason i cant get the optonline smtp servers to accept smtp
>> email transmissions with outlook. pop works fine. i never had this
>> problem with at/tyahoo or hotmail setup.
>
>Some ISPs refuse SMTP from "foreign" providers to block spam. You're
>trying to access the Optonline SMTP server from Verizon instead of Optonline.
>
>
>To help with this, most cellular providers ofer an alternate SMTP server
>for mobile use.
>
>I don't use Verizon, but I found this:
>
>http://www.c3sd.com/email_servers_ports.php:
>
>...which says:
>
>Verizon Wireless SMTP Server
>VZWMAIL.com
>SMTP PORT: 25
>Verizon Wireless has also provided an outgoing server (vzmail.net) However,
>you must register with vtext.com first and then follow these instructions:
>1. Set up an account with vtext.com and establish a username and password
>for the website.
>2. Select Advanced options for SMTP
>3. Select SMTP Authentication
>4. Under username enter yourphonenumber@vzwmail.net
>5. Under password enter your password for vtext.com
>
>
>Good luck!
>

Thanks Todd!

smtp.vzwmail.net is the actual name of the server. works fine. leave
the domain name field blank.