| Scenario: You are a business person traveling around | | | | ISP network. Since you are already in that network, |
| the world. You just got to your hotel room, turned | | | | you will not have problems to use your ISP's SMTP |
| on your laptop pc and are ready to answer to those | | | | server. But when you are in that hotel room you |
| very important emails that arrived while you were on | | | | may have problems doing it, since you might be |
| the plane. So, you open your Outlook, Thunderbird or | | | | connecting from a different ISP network. So, it is |
| whatever email client you have, and start answering | | | | pretty normal that you cannot send emails from a |
| first the most important messages. Once you finish, | | | | different location |
| you click on the "Send" button, totally confident and | | | | So, What Can You Do About That Relaying Denied |
| relieved because you needed that mail sent with | | | | Error? |
| extreme urgence. Oh no... what happened? You | | | | There are many things to do. You could check if it is |
| received one of this errors: smtp 550 error Unable to | | | | possible to enable the authentication when connecting |
| relay to user relaying denied mailbox unavailable or is | | | | to that SMTP server, so you can tell him "I am not a |
| not local Server Error: 550 Error Number: | | | | spammer" and be able to send emails wherever you |
| 0x800CCC79 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of | | | | want. You could also use web mail, but I am sure it is |
| allowed rcpthosts Server Error: 553 Error Number: | | | | not the same, when you have all your emails well |
| 0x800CCC79 | | | | organized in your Outlook folders. |
| Why does this happen only when you are traveling? | | | | Going back to our scenario, maybe it is 1 am and you |
| Most Internet providers use two protocols to send | | | | cannot contact anyone to check about the SMTP |
| and receive mails: SMTP and POP. SMTP (or Simple | | | | authentication or webmail. Is there another option? A |
| Mail Transfer Protocol) is the one used to send email | | | | very valid solution to your email sending problems is: |
| out. When you are home, you are connected to your | | | | smtp2go. |