BailMeOut wrote: » 110 is POP3 (or incoming email) and rarely used anymore as most POP3 servers use TLS 993. 25 and 465 is SMTP or Outgoing email. Are you having problems sending or receiving email?
Masala wrote: » It's my Outgoing Mail that is the problem......
BailMeOut wrote: » ok so what outgoing (SMTP) server have you been using and what port? You need to make sure you are also authenticating so need to add your username and password to the SMTP server setting as werll.
Masala wrote: » Using mail1.eircom.net and 25 as the port. I haven't used my name and password in the SMTP settings... Never done so before!!! So is this something new that is needed???
BailMeOut wrote: » with SMTP you must authenticate otherwise the server would be an open relay. I know you did not ask but you should seriously consider getting a proper email address. (gmail/hotmail/yahoo/etc...) and getting rid of this IOL account.
Masala wrote: » I agree .... Been with iol for donkeys years. Am paying over €300 a year to maintain it... Have all the family on iol.ie addresses. Got in early so got john@iol.ie like a personal license plate and reluctant to lose it. Have so many suppliers using it ... Could be a nightmare contacting all to change to a gmail!! But must start using gmail going forward and maybe editing all current profiles to change my email over to gmail
BailMeOut wrote: » is there an option in iol to forward email?
BailMeOut wrote: » I know you did not ask but you should seriously consider getting a proper email address. (gmail/hotmail/yahoo/etc...) and getting rid of this IOL account.
Masala wrote: » To be honest.... I dont know.
ItHurtsWhenIP wrote: » I would have thought there is such an option, but you can also set-up GMail to bring in e-mail from IOL via POP3. I'm doing it for an old Oceanfree.net address I have.
BailMeOut wrote: » ah forgot about that option in GMAIL - good point ItHurtsWhenIP OP what ItHurtsWhenIP says is exactly what I would do.
sales@masala.com
gctest50 wrote: » Use this as the chance to move to "your own" email address - this kind of thing : or whatever the company is called - looks better
Masala wrote: » That would be Great..... any links to a 'how to do it' ??
BailMeOut wrote: » TLS issue? Seriously consider switching to GMAIL or another mail account. I know this is a very difficult decision as you probably have had this IOL for years but you'd be surprised how quickly you can switch over and everyone gets used to new address.
BailMeOut wrote: » If you can setup an auto forward from iol to GMAIL that makes everything quite simple to change over. Their setup is really old and quite untrustworthy to other mail systems so I'd still make a plan to migrate in near term regardless. Their website is also mostly down so not a good sign. Can you use their webmail portal http://webmail.iol.ie ..and interesting to see that they do not have a SSL cert on it which is quite bad.
paulaa wrote: » iol was set up in 1994 and I have had the email address since 1995. It had several owners I think and I wonder if anyone is responsible for the email addresses today ?
paulaa wrote: » Thanks for the reply. I have no idea what it is. It will be a royal pain to change as I've used it for business and personal for years and years. I literally have thousands of contacts