[gui-talk] Using POP3 for Outgoing Server

[Steve Jacobson]

Doug,

I have a situation where SMTP is blocked when connecting to a particular network.  I have found with one of my e-mail programs that I can set my outgoing server 
to POP3 and specify the POP3 server and it works.  Possibly I am using POP before SMTP but don't know for certain.

I'll try your suggestions to see if they work with Outlook.  Thanks.

On Thu, 14 May 2009 12:28:55 -0400, Doug Lee wrote:

>I think there's some confusion here. :)

>POP3 is, by definition, an inbound protocol.  It does not provide a
>means for transmitting outbound mail.  I don't think IMAP provides a
>means to transmit outbound mail either.

>SMTP is, by definition, an outbound mail protocol, and is only for
>sending mail out, though technically there is a way to retrieve mail
>with it as well.

>There is, though, a sort of protocol called POP-before-SMTP, which is
>used to authenticate a person before sending mail.  The plan works
>like this:  You log into a server using POP3, download any pending
>mail, then use SMTP with the same server to transmit your outgoing
>mail.  This plan was used more often before the advent of protocols
>that allow direct authentication via SMTP, but POP-before-SMTP is
>probably still used some places.

>I suspect you are actually talking about POP-before-SMTP, but I'm not
>sure.  If you are, you might be able to do what you need just by
>specifying your inbound and outbound servers to be the same, using
>POP3 for incoming mail and SMTP for outbound mail.  Then just retrieve
>mail once before trying to send mail out.

>Apologies if I'm seriously confused myself as to what you're trying to
>do.

>On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 09:34:36AM -0500, Steve Jacobson wrote:
>Does anyone know if there is a way to specify POP3 rather than SMTP as the outgoing server type in Outlook and Outlook Express?  It's a bit complicated to 
explain, 
>but the bottom line is that I have a case where it is necessary to say the outgoing server is POP3.  My old e-mail client, PMMail, let's me do this and I think some 
others 
>do as well.  However, I don't see any way to do this in Outlook or Outlook express.  Overriding the server name and port numbers to use the POP3 port doesn't 
seem to 
>be enough.  Anybody have any experience with this?

>Best regards,

>Steve Jacobson




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