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felixcct@yahoo.com - 29 Oct 2006 16:56 GMT

Does anyone know what SMTP server we are supposed to use for sending
email via GPRS? Any message I send via smtp.fido.ca is rejected with
"Invalid recipient", even mail to my own fido account. I can
successfully send email to other SMTP servers I have access to - it's
just more awkward because of the security restrictions I have to go
through to access them from outside, which is why I thought it would be
better to use smtp.fido.ca.

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JF Mezei - 29 Oct 2006 23:54 GMT

> Does anyone know what SMTP server we are supposed to use for sending
> email via GPRS?

gprs.fido.ca

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felixcct@yahoo.com - 30 Oct 2006 08:33 GMT

> > Does anyone know what SMTP server we are supposed to use for sending
> > email via GPRS?
>
> gprs.fido.ca

Nope.
"Message could not be sent"

Does it need a username/password?

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JF Mezei - 31 Oct 2006 01:02 GMT

> > gprs.fido.ca
>
> Nope.
> "Message could not be sent"
>
> Does it need a username/password?

My setetings are:

SMTP Server: gprs.fido.ca
Port: 25
SMTP Authenticate: NO

Note that one of the fido SMTO servers that end up delivering the mail
has a bad DNS entry in one of the servers, so from time to time, emnails
sent from Fido are considered spam because of the failure to reverse
translate the IP of the Fido server. However, this is a problem at the
internet level. You do not see this from the handset at all. I.E. you
handset confirms the mesage has been sent.

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felixcct@yahoo.com - 31 Oct 2006 05:12 GMT

> > > gprs.fido.ca
> >
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> internet level. You do not see this from the handset at all. I.E. you
> handset confirms the mesage has been sent.

Same as my settings, but gprs.fido.ca doesn't work for me.

But substituting my own SMTP server works, with the correct password
and username.

I'm on the west coast, so maybe it doesn't work for us out here.
Wouldn't be the first time Fido has had strange and pointless regional
differences.

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Rob Russell - 31 Oct 2006 06:22 GMT

Go Go Gadget JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca>:

> Note that one of the fido SMTO servers that end up delivering the mail
> has a bad DNS entry in one of the servers, so from time to time, emnails
> sent from Fido are considered spam because of the failure to reverse
> translate the IP of the Fido server. However, this is a problem at the
> internet level. You do not see this from the handset at all. I.E. you
> handset confirms the mesage has been sent.

Can you let me know which IP/Hostname you think is broken?

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JF Mezei - 03 Nov 2006 07:27 GMT

> Can you let me know which IP/Hostname you think is broken?

aegis.fido.ca

If you make a search for that string in can.internet.highspeed, you'll
find a detailed message about it

> http://groups.google.com/group/can.internet.highspeed/msg/4ee795f3e6193c18?hl=xx
-elmer&

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