Verizon pulling SMTP mail relaying - read this.

[Guest DeepBlueEditor]

DeepBlueEditor, it certainly wasn't my intent to criticize you or make you upset. Perhaps I don't have a grasp of what the problem really is.

I have my domain and email hosted by Yahoo. I use pop3 to access it with the WM6 mail application, and have no problems. This ability is not going away.

If I understand you correctly, the problem you have seems to be a limitation due to a workaround necessary to bypass security features of your corporate email server, not Verizon. You've been able to take advantage of an open access situation with Verizon's servers to work around this, and now they are closing the loophole.

Again, maybe I misunderstand, and if so, would appreciate clarification. Put simply, what I understand you to be doing is using Verizon's servers as an SMTP relay for your workplace servers. If this is correct, all my points stand.

Not upsetting too much so don't sweat it but no, you still aren't seeing what I am saying...

At home I have RoadRunner as my ISP. I must be logged in to my system at home to send outgoing emial through the roadrunner servers ( smtp-server.columbus.rr.com) I cannot use that entry in my Omnia to send outgoing email. I can receive email fine with the rest of the info but I cannot send outgoing email from my handset using the supplied Columbus.rr.com info they gave me to use at RR.

The only way I have ever been able to send outgoing email from my handset is to use the VZW server info that the VZW tech folks and previously on their web pages on setting up pop email accounts provided. What this does as I understand it is allow me so use VZWs SMTP server to send outgoing email. I can tell the system to tell the people receiving my email that when they hit "reply", it is going to come back to me through RR servers again, and we can go back and forth seemlessly and seemingly through RRs system both ways although we all know that VZW has supplied the outgoing smtp services for us, until the end of the month.

So far, there is no work-around I can find to this. When they shut it off, I will not be able to send outgoing email and have it appear to the people I am sending to as if the mail came from my genuine RR account.

If I have to use Gmail or other outbound SMTP service, when the folks I send an email to hit "reply", that mail will then actually go through Gmail. On my handset (Omnia i910) there is no setting to tell the other persons email program a different "reply to" address. I casn have Gmail do that IF I use the web interface to generate an outgoing email but not when using the handset. This means I need to constantly actively monitor both RR and Gmail accounts as I could get an original incoming emial at RR (like I should) but responses to Q&A will then go to the Gmail address. Sort of a pain, and a cause for confusion to clients who will now either wonder what's up that this is so odd or they will have to capture 2 email addresses for me, etc. It's actually a mess for me, and is or will be for many others when the tap gets turned off.

S

Edited August 4, 2009 by DeepBlueEditor