Originally Posted by DallasBill
SMTP email still has to pass through something at the ISP before it gets to your hosting provider, no?!...
I still don't think that it's Outlook's issue... at least not the way you are thus far filling in the blanks here for us.
DallasBill, I may not have been clear enough in my descriptions. Sorry. Hopefully what I've included below makes the issue clear.
Yes, the smtp traffic has to pass through something, a router and or firewall belonging to the ISP but if they don't block port 587 (which earthlink doesn't) then it just passes right through the router and or firewall on its way to the designated IP address.
Originally Posted by pranu
Actually question for you...
You say it goes to different servers of the ISP
Am I correct in understanding that
1. The ISP that the mails go out from IS THE CORRECT ONE
2. The problem is that it uses the wrong server.
Not ISP, Hosting provider, in my case the two are not the same. Hosting means web server, mail server and other stuff and is independent of my connectivity provider (ISP).
The mail goes out from the correct hosting provider, bypassing the ISP, but from the wrong email server.
Originally Posted by pranu
If so - try the following
1. nslookup smtp.server.name - see if it resolves to the right IP (perhaps the name table somewhere is screwed up
2. telnet smtp.server.name 587 (587 of course being the port). Check to see if manually you can estabilish a session with the right server
I didn't do this; just did it and is all resolves correctly.
Originally Posted by pranu
1. I apologize if you are far more technical and have tried all this stuff already. This problem is just eating at me
2. I wonder if I should take this conversation to PMs - maybe I should read the FT rules again.
This problem is really bugging me too.
Here's an example of the email header from an email message I just sent from one of my email accounts to another.
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Return-Path: <
[email protected]>
Received: from wrongdomain.com ([xx.xx.xx.xxx]) by intendedrecipient.com for <
[email protected]>; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:46:32 -0800
Received: from uavirgin ([xx.xx.xx.xxx]) by wrongdomain.com for <
[email protected]>
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The return path is correct but for some reason Outlook sent the email through the wrong domain (wrongdomain.com) to the intended recipients domain. This was sent from the default domain (uavirgin.com). The domain/smtp server that the email is being routed through is the last email account in the list.
It should read:
Return-Path: <
[email protected]>
Received: from uavirgin.com ([xx.xx.xx.xxx]) by intendedrecipient.com for <
[email protected]>; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:46:32 -0800
Received: from uavirgin ([xx.xx.xx.xxx]) by uavirgin.com for <
[email protected]>
Sorry if this is boring folks, but to me it is causing problems.