Comments for Why can't I send mail from my hotel room?

Comment from Puneet on 2008-06-16

2008-06-16T16:37:14Z

Matt's trick worked for me at one of the extended stay hotel, thanks matt
Puneet

I solved this problem by changing the email account settings in Outlook 2007. In the

Tools > Account Settings > Change > More settings > Outgoing Server

section just activate "Log on to incoming mail server before sending mail". I don't know if it will work for any email account, maybe it depends on the hotel, but it always works for my Hotmail and business accounts!
Hope this helps...

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Comment from Matt on 2008-06-01

2008-06-01T17:35:28Z

I solved this problem by changing the email account settings in Outlook 2007. In the

Tools > Account Settings > Change > More settings > Outgoing Server

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Comment from senia on 2007-12-07

2007-12-08T02:15:39Z

What I did to solve this problem is sign up with http://smtp.com, which listens on other ports like 2525, and so keeps working in any hotel room. I haven't had any issues with outbound email since, but the only downside is that it costs about $4 per month.

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Comment from Charlie Arehart on 2007-03-23

2007-03-24T03:45:10Z

Leo, as always, you're a font of valuable knowledge. Thanks. I'd like to share one more tip that may help others stuck in this situation. I just found that those of us with Gmail accounts, if setup for pop access, can configure our mail clients to use gmail as our SMTP server. Sweet. Just need to configure the correct servername, port, and login info. Interested folks should check out the blog entry that clued me in, at http://www.geekzone.co.nz/tonyhughes/599. Or for more info, see my own blog entry: http://carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2007/3/23/get_around_blocked_smtp_email

Hope that helps someone.

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Comment from Ian Rudge on 2007-01-15

2007-01-15T19:48:03Z

Have met this issue with Egyptian and Middle East hotels. One concern is that under some countries' Company regulations there is a legal requirement for all business emails to be logged. Thus by diverting the email away from its intended path (and thus preventing its being logged at the site mailserver) whatever its intentions are, the hotel may be committing an offence, or causing an offence to be committed.

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Comment from Jerry on 2006-03-07

2006-03-07T14:14:13Z

As above...this is when I send from my hotmail account at home
thanks

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Comment from Jerry on 2006-03-07

2006-03-07T14:12:40Z

Don't know if you know about this one. When I send or reply to email from AOL...it always fails

thanks for any help

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Comment from Julian Smith on 2005-12-30

2005-12-31T00:58:04Z

Interestingly, I have this issue quite often also. However...

I am working through a corporate VPN tunnel!!!

This issue is real for me and only on certain connections. I do not understand how it could happen within the vpn infrastructure though.

BTW - If the message I send is VERY small (i.e. only few bytes), it may well get sent successfully.

Any ideas?

Jules

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Comment from yasir on 2005-12-20

2005-12-20T09:51:57Z

if you are un able to email from your hotel then ask to the hotels administration why are asking to us you bloody fool

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