Orange POP/SMTP settings

Trying to resolve a friend's email send/receive and have managed to get
his POP working, but not SMTP.

He is an Orange customer, and has an 'fsnet.co.uk' email address.

Ornage's own support site suggests that pop.orangehome.co.uk and
smtp.orangehome.co.uk should be the servers, but the latter errors in
Outlook Express with

"The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'Freeserve', Server:
'smtp.orangehome.co.uk', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No,
Socket Error: 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E"

I've tried to use the IP address of the SMTP (details found on various
forums) but the address of 193.252.22.138 (also 139 and 140) don't work.

Is his account just going to join what looks like a long list of
historical SMTP problems with Orange, and I should set him up with
something else, or is there a fix?

TIA


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the_eldergeek

The Eldergeek wrote:
> Trying to resolve a friend's email send/receive and have managed to get
> his POP working, but not SMTP.
>
> He is an Orange customer, and has an 'fsnet.co.uk' email address.
>
> Ornage's own support site suggests that pop.orangehome.co.uk

TYhat works from here

telnet pop.orangehome.co.uk 110
Trying 193.252.22.155...
Connected to pop.orangehome.co.uk.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK connected to pop3 on 341

and
> smtp.orangehome.co.uk should be the servers, but the latter errors in
> Outlook Express with
>


Yeah., doesnt look typo good


+telnet smtp.orangehome.co.uk 25
Trying 193.252.22.134...
and hangs..

> "The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'Freeserve', Server:
> 'smtp.orangehome.co.uk', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No,
> Socket Error: 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E"
>
> I've tried to use the IP address of the SMTP (details found on various
> forums) but the address of 193.252.22.138 (also 139 and 140) don't work.
>
> Is his account just going to join what looks like a long list of
> historical SMTP problems with Orange, and I should set him up with
> something else, or is there a fix?
>
Are you actually sending from an orange network? My response from
Idnet's network suggests its simply firewalled out for me.

You might also try smtp.orange.net and smtp.freeserve.co.uk



> TIA
>
>

In article <hotuh4$4p8$(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)d says...

> Are you actually sending from an orange network? My response from
> Idnet's network suggests its simply firewalled out for me.

All being done from an Orange Broadband connected machine via Logmein.
POP is fine, SMTP is biffed.

> You might also try smtp.orange.net and smtp.freeserve.co.uk

I did. No joy.



--
the_eldergeek

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
says...

> Try:-
>
> smtp.fsnet.net
>
> and
>
> pop.fsnet.net
>
> or as a long shot:-
>
> smtp.freeserve.net
>
> and
>
> pop.freeserve.net
>
> These all resolve to valid IP addresses.

But none work. Weird.



--
the_eldergeek

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:58:11 +0100, The Eldergeek
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>>
>> These all resolve to valid IP addresses.
>
>But none work. Weird.

It has been broken the last two days that is why.

Try again as I think it is fixed now.

On 30/03/2010 22:23, The Eldergeek wrote:
>
> Trying to resolve a friend's email send/receive and have managed to get
> his POP working, but not SMTP.
>
> He is an Orange customer, and has an 'fsnet.co.uk' email address.
>
> Ornage's own support site suggests that pop.orangehome.co.uk and
> smtp.orangehome.co.uk should be the servers, but the latter errors in
> Outlook Express with
>
> "The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'Freeserve', Server:
> 'smtp.orangehome.co.uk', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No,
> Socket Error: 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E"
>
> I've tried to use the IP address of the SMTP (details found on various
> forums) but the address of 193.252.22.138 (also 139 and 140) don't work.
>
> Is his account just going to join what looks like a long list of
> historical SMTP problems with Orange, and I should set him up with
> something else, or is there a fix?

There were some problems on Mon & Tues with smtp.freeserve.net but
pop.freeserve.net was working. The Orange webmail interface was also
knackered. All seem to be working OK at the moment. You may have
unfortunately stumbled on a transitory hiccup.

On 31/03/2010 11:14, Allan wrote:

[snip]

> There were some problems on Mon & Tues with smtp.freeserve.net but
> pop.freeserve.net was working. The Orange webmail interface was also
> knackered. All seem to be working OK at the moment. You may have
> unfortunately stumbled on a transitory hiccup.

smtp.freeserve.net gone again (I spoke too soon)

"The Eldergeek" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed) T...
>
> Trying to resolve a friend's email send/receive and have managed to get
> his POP working, but not SMTP.
> He is an Orange customer, and has an 'fsnet.co.uk' email address.
<snip>
>
>
He should count himself lucky it works at all.
Orange's mobile email registrations server for @orange.net addys
hasn't worked properly for at least 2 years.
I've lost count of the complaints i've put in about it

Face it, Orange mail services would be better run by a 5 year old
rather than the 6 year old they have running it

It's appalling that FT, one of Europe's biggest telecom Co's
is so consistently fecking incompetent.

No wonder FT staff chuck themselves off of high buildings

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Steve Terry wrote:
> "The Eldergeek" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed) T...
>> Trying to resolve a friend's email send/receive and have managed to get
>> his POP working, but not SMTP.
>> He is an Orange customer, and has an 'fsnet.co.uk' email address.
> <snip>
>>
> He should count himself lucky it works at all.
> Orange's mobile email registrations server for @orange.net addys
> hasn't worked properly for at least 2 years.
> I've lost count of the complaints i've put in about it
>
> Face it, Orange mail services would be better run by a 5 year old
> rather than the 6 year old they have running it
>
> It's appalling that FT, one of Europe's biggest telecom Co's
> is so consistently fecking incompetent.
>
> No wonder FT staff chuck themselves off of high buildings
>
> Steve Terry
well ultimately do what everyone else does, use someone else to do mail
relaying by setting up your own domain for peanuts, and vectoring
oncoming to Oranges pop server (which DOES work) and using SMTP relay
from supplier of domain.


Or ditch Orange.

"The Natural Philosopher" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:hp07ov$7bl$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Steve Terry wrote:
>> "The Eldergeek" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed) T...
>>> Trying to resolve a friend's email send/receive and have managed to get
>>> his POP working, but not SMTP.
>>> He is an Orange customer, and has an 'fsnet.co.uk' email address.
>> <snip>
>>>
>> He should count himself lucky it works at all.
>> Orange's mobile email registrations server for @orange.net addys
>> hasn't worked properly for at least 2 years.
>> I've lost count of the complaints i've put in about it
>>
>> Face it, Orange mail services would be better run by a 5 year old
>> rather than the 6 year old they have running it
>>
>> It's appalling that FT, one of Europe's biggest telecom Co's
>> is so consistently fecking incompetent.
>>
>> No wonder FT staff chuck themselves off of high buildings Steve Terry
>
> well ultimately do what everyone else does, use someone else to do mail
> relaying by setting up your own domain for peanuts, and vectoring oncoming
> to Oranges pop server (which DOES work) and using SMTP relay from supplier
> of domain.
> Or ditch Orange.
>
>
Absolutely, i use googlemail and yahoomail which offer virtual mail,
and mail forwarding.

But orange.net offer free SMS subject line alerts, i want orange.net
to work so i can make use of that feature.

Steve Terry
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