Comments on: Shaw, Telus SMTP servers: how to send e-mail when port 25 is blocked

By: MSteven

MSteven — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:33:50 +0000

There is an online test at http://port25.icannotconnect.com that can tell you if your ISP is blocking port 25.

By: Amos

Amos — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 02:06:11 +0000

I have suffered greatly with this problem in hotels, conferences, and airports until I found http://www.loapowertools.com, which usually works like a charm. Not only that, when I had a configuration problem, they came back to me on client service almost immediately, and with good solutions. They have the most responsive and personalized technical help I’ve found on the web. I quickly went from the free version to the $4 a month version, which is quite sufficient for when I’m on the road.
Hooray for what the web and customer service should always be like.

By: Henry

Henry — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:47:56 +0000

I am retired and now do a lot of traveling throughout Canada and the USA. This year we might even go to the UK for a visit. I found that sending emails on my account would not work once I travelled outside of my area, so started investigating and looking for a solution. I found LOA PowerTools while doing a search and decided to try it, although it did not mention that it would work on windows 7, which I am using. So far I like what it does for me

- Thank you for LOA PowerTools

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:57:15 +0000

Some good advice here, thanks for posting it – I was able to get my Thunderbird working with Gmail as the SMTP server for outgoing mail, but of course anyone receiving emails sent this way were seeing them coming from my gmail account rather than my shawmail address. Tried the "loapowertools" Catherine linked to above me, and that works like a charm for me (and people receiving my emails see them as having come from my shaw address directly) — good stuff!

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:41:18 +0000

Hello,
Tried everything and nothing worked. Then tried http://www.loapowertools.com and it did!
Love the trumpet.

By: dwhs

dwhs — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:35:04 +0000

We just posted a blog on this here http://www.dwhs.net/blog/2009/12/email-port-25-26-587/

I linked to your tutorial because it shows how to change a port in a SMTP setting.

Thanks,

Charles

By: Springfield Harrison

Springfield Harrison — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:54:31 +0000

Hello:

My Eudora has been set this way for ages but I can only connect through a Shaw connection, not Telus.

Is there some other option to tweak?

I’ll try the other service mentioned above.

TU, cheers . . . . .

Reply from Peter: I’m not completely sure what you’re referring to. Remember that you wouldn’t be able to use the Telus SMTP server when you’re on a Telus connection.

By: Jim Fletcher

Jim Fletcher — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:10:06 +0000

Hi Peter – This approach will certainly work, but is a royal POA when you arrive at your Toronto hotel at midnight & need to go looking for the local ISP settings, change them, change them back when you get home, etc. There is a MUCH more elegant solution via www.loapowertools.com – They put a small virtual server on your laptop, so you set your Outgoing Server permanently to "localhost". From there, your "local" server routes email through Loa’s server (with full encryption) to ultimate destination. Works flawlessly anywhere in the world that I have been.

Cheers

Jim

Reply from Peter: Nice tip and nice approach. The plans look reasonable, and there’s a free version too.