Sending emails from 3 Mobile BB

I'm trying to get 3 Mobile BB going on my laptop (Win-Xp SP2)

I can browse ok - albeit slowly! - and I can access incoming emails using my
normal ISP's POP server, but I cannot send any - either from Outlook 2000 or
Outlook Express. [I *can* post to newsgroups (via news.individual.net) using
OE].

I expected to have to change the smtp server, and have set it to
smtp-mbb.three.co.uk like it says on the 3 website - but to no avail - I
just get 0x800ccc0f errors whenever I try to send.

Anyone got any ideas?
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"Roger Mills" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm trying to get 3 Mobile BB going on my laptop (Win-Xp SP2)
>
> I can browse ok - albeit slowly! - and I can access incoming emails using
> my normal ISP's POP server, but I cannot send any - either from Outlook
> 2000 or Outlook Express. [I *can* post to newsgroups (via
> news.individual.net) using OE].
>
> I expected to have to change the smtp server, and have set it to
> smtp-mbb.three.co.uk like it says on the 3 website - but to no avail - I
> just get 0x800ccc0f errors whenever I try to send.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?

I could be talking b*llocks but I seem to recall reading somewhere that you
can use googlemail's servers to send and receive mail from any ISP. Try
pop.gmail.com & smtp.gmail.com.

As I say, it could be rubish but it won't take long to find out if it works
or not.

Tim
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> Cheers,
> Roger
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"Roger Mills" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm trying to get 3 Mobile BB going on my laptop (Win-Xp SP2)
>
> I can browse ok - albeit slowly! - and I can access incoming emails using
> my normal ISP's POP server, but I cannot send any - either from Outlook
> 2000 or Outlook Express. [I *can* post to newsgroups (via
> news.individual.net) using OE].
>
> I expected to have to change the smtp server, and have set it to
> smtp-mbb.three.co.uk like it says on the 3 website - but to no avail - I
> just get 0x800ccc0f errors whenever I try to send.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?

Further to my other post, here are the full settings for gmail.

Tim

Your Name: (optional)
E-mail address: (your Gmail address, including '@gmail.com')
User Name: (your Gmail address, including '@gmail.com')
Password: (your Gmail password)
Remember password: (optional)
Log on using Secure Password Authentication: disabled
Incoming mail server (POP3): pop.gmail.com
Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.gmail.com

Outgoing Server tab
My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication: enabled
Use same settings as my incoming mail server: enabled

Advanced tab
Incoming server (POP3): 995
This server requires a secure connection (SSL) enabled
Outgoing server (SMTP): 465 or 25
This server requires a secure connection (SSL) enabled
Server Timeouts (Greater than 1 minute, we recommend 5)
Leave a copy of messages on the server disabled
> --
> Cheers,
> Roger
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Tim Downie wrote:
>>
>> Anyone got any ideas?
>
> Further to my other post, here are the full settings for gmail.

Good, have used it myself but unfortunately it's not 100% reliable.

Some sites that the email is delivered to, will take a look at the
convoluted "sent on behalf of" google header and ditch processing the
message any further. :-(

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Adrian C

In an earlier contribution to this discussion, Tim Downie
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> "Roger Mills" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I'm trying to get 3 Mobile BB going on my laptop (Win-Xp SP2)
>>
>> I can browse ok - albeit slowly! - and I can access incoming emails
>> using my normal ISP's POP server, but I cannot send any - either
>> from Outlook 2000 or Outlook Express. [I *can* post to newsgroups
>> (via news.individual.net) using OE].
>>
>> I expected to have to change the smtp server, and have set it to
>> smtp-mbb.three.co.uk like it says on the 3 website - but to no avail
>> - I just get 0x800ccc0f errors whenever I try to send.
>>
>> Anyone got any ideas?
>
> Further to my other post, here are the full settings for gmail.
>
> Tim
>
> Your Name: (optional)
> E-mail address: (your Gmail address, including '@gmail.com')
> User Name: (your Gmail address, including '@gmail.com')
> Password: (your Gmail password)
> Remember password: (optional)
> Log on using Secure Password Authentication: disabled
> Incoming mail server (POP3): pop.gmail.com
> Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.gmail.com
>
> Outgoing Server tab
> My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication: enabled
> Use same settings as my incoming mail server: enabled
>
> Advanced tab
> Incoming server (POP3): 995
> This server requires a secure connection (SSL) enabled
> Outgoing server (SMTP): 465 or 25
> This server requires a secure connection (SSL) enabled
> Server Timeouts (Greater than 1 minute, we recommend 5)
> Leave a copy of messages on the server disabled

Thanks for the info. I think it only applies to gmail accounts though - I
don't think you can use the gmail smtp server for sending emails from other
accounts - such as PlusNet and Freeserve(Wanadoo/Orange) - which is what I
was trying to do.

ANYWAY, the problem seems to be solved for the time being. I'm currently
away from home, in a location where there's a much stronger 3G signal, and
it's letting me send emails without changing any of the settings I was using
yesterday. So either the server was on the blink yesterday, or I was getting
some sort of timeout because the link was too slow. I'll see what happens
when I'm at home again in a few days time.
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Roger
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