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Old Jan 19, 2015, 3:42 pm
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Originally Posted by Paint Horse
Reject mail from sites not on their network?
It was/is supposedly part of their spam prevention. Frequently you can't set up, or check/send e-mails if you're not on a "home" network. Fairly pointless really, and it is really quite easy to work around.

If you google "Roadrunner not working off network" or "Road runner email only works at home" you'll find some more.

Wharvey, this site may be of interest for you/them. http://www.derekunderwood.com/using-...unner-network/
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Old Jan 19, 2015, 6:02 pm
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Originally Posted by Paint Horse
Reject mail from sites not on their network?
A lot of ISPs do this - but the workaround is to authenticate to the mail server, and it'll work from anywhere.
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Old Jan 19, 2015, 6:37 pm
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Email doesn't work if you do not talk to the other mail servers.
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Old Jan 19, 2015, 9:45 pm
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Originally Posted by Paint Horse
Reject mail from sites not on their network?
No, reject clients claiming to be customers but not from their IPs.
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Old Jan 20, 2015, 8:07 am
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Ah, that makes sense, but has nothing to do with mail server interaction.
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Old Jan 20, 2015, 10:15 am
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Originally Posted by Paint Horse
I find a lot of mail servers don't support IMAP. Have you seen widespread use of it these days?
Gmail and Google Apps allow for IMAP connections. Microsoft's web-mail clients (outlook.com, live.com, office365.com) didn't allow for IMAP for a long time--until about last year.
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