Originally Posted by redburgundy
Most likely the smtp server that you specified when you set up Outlook Express is the smtp server operated by your home ISP, and maybe they only allow you to send mail through their smtp when you are phsically connected to their access line. You can't send through their smtp server when you're in a hotel--unless they allow relaying by means of authentication. You can use the hotel's smtp server--you need to ask the hotel what is the server address for their smtp server, and then enter that into Outlook Express. Some hotels have networks that intercept your outgoing mail and send it with their smtp server without you making any change to Outlook Express. I don't know if your ISP allows relaying, and if so, I don't understand why your entering the password for your ISP's smtp server only works half the time.
When it works on public wireless networks I don't have to do anything or enter any username or password - my Outlook Express functions just exactly as it does on my home wirless network.
When it doesn't work, the message box that pops up is not one I normally see. So my ISP seemingly does allow relaying - for example at any Starbucks it works 100% of the time - it's just some hotels it seems. For example, there are two Holiday Inn Express's I stay in at Richmond, VA. When at one it works fine, the other it does not.
