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Out of town email problems


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wildair

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When I am out of town, and staying at a motel, I can connect to the Wireless or plug in to the Ethernet, and receive email with no problem on either connections. However, about 99.8% of the time, I cannot send email, even connected to the ethernet.

At home there is no problem even on wireless. I am using a Dell Inspiron Netbook running windows XP Home or a Dell laptop, running Vista.

There is plenty of memory and space on the harddrive, as these are relatively new.
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is this a personal laptop or a work laptop?

how are you sending/receiving email? outlook? outlook express? other? where is the email account? work email or webmail?
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These are both personal laptops. Outlook Express, Thunderbird are on both. Emails are on Roadrunner, but this has also happened when I had a state based server for all the large metro areas in the state.
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Road Runner's SMTP (send mail server) may require authentication. In other words, it may need to know who you are before it'll let you send email using their SMTP servers.

Try this ...

In Outlook Express, click Tools > Accounts... > <your_account_name> then the Properties button.

Click the Servers tab, check (enable) the little box to the left of "My server requires authentication".

Click the Settings... button and make sure the "Use same settings as my incoming mail server" is selected.

Click OK. Click Apply > OK. Click Close.
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there's a chance that the hotels that you're staying at are blocking SMTP traffic
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