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O2 Mail Server, Relaying Not Allowed

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  • 26-01-2010 11:20pm
    #1
    dnme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭


    Hi folks,

    Tonight, my emails started being bounced back with the mesage "relaying not allowed". I use O2 mobile broadband and my old IOL email account.

    It worked fine for the past two years but all of a sudden tonight bang!

    In Outlook, under my email account settings, I use
    pop.iol.ie as incomming and smtp.o2.ie as outgoing. I have also tried mail.o2.ie as outgoing but makes no difference.

    Can anyone please help?

    Please note, I have emailed O2 tech support but they are currently taking about 5 days to respond, also please note that my iol account is still good (it works from webmail)


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    #2
    p15574
    Registered Users Posts: 753 ✭✭✭p15574


    Don't know if this might be the reason or not, but it may be that o2 have been 'blacklisted' by the interweb as being a source of spam or something. I've heard something similar about eircom and, I think, Vodafone recently.

    I'm afraid you'll have to wait for their tech support...


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    FusionNet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 695 ✭✭✭FusionNet


    Hmmm they may have changed their servers or SMTP settings. I know for example Vodafone had a 2 day problem where their SMTP servers were down... Can you not ring tech support?


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    #4
    techguy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭techguy


    I had this error before. I would only get the error when sending emails to gmail accounts. Sending to other e-mail addresses would be fine.

    I just changed my outgoing mail server to my ISPs mail server and not the outgoing server associated with my e-mail account..

    e.g. I am using yahoo pop e-mail. don't use smtp.yahoo.com (or whatever it is). My ISP is Eircom so I use mail.eircom.net as my outgoing mail server. (or whatever it is)

    Try that and see if it works. I remember that fixed it for me..


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