Configuring E-mail Clients For Sending

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We have configured our mail system to allow SMTP Authentication.

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SMTP Authentication

This mechanism allows us to authenticate you, our clients, using the same login and password information as your E-mail accounts. In order to use this, you must configure your E-mail client (such as Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora etc. ) to work with SMTP Authentication. That is, you must enable the special SMTP AUTH setting specific to your E-mail client.

For Outlook / Outlook Express

  • Go to your e-mail account property
  • Outgoing (SMTP) server: smtp.example-site.com
  • Click on More Settings
  • Select the Outgoing Server tab
  • Check the box "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication"
  • Also check the box "Use same settings as my incoming mail server"


If you do not have this option in your e-mail software and have to fill in the information manually in order to authenticate, use this as an example:

  • User or Login or Account: joe@example-site.com
  • Password: joepasswd
    (Use your own appropriate information here REMEMBER the @domain.com portion is important and necessary.)

For Thunderbird:

  • Click on Tools, then Account Settings
  • In the left pane, click on Outgoing Server (SMTP)
  • In the Server Name field, type smtp.example-site.com
  • Check the box that says "use name and password"
  • In the username box, type joe@example-site.com
  • Click OK
    (use your own domain to in place of example-site.com.)

For Eudora:

  • From Tools choose Options
  • Click on the Sending Mail icon
  • In the SMTP Server (Outgoing) field, type smtp.example-site.com
  • Check the box that says Allow authentication
  • Click OK
    (use your own domain to in place of example-site.com.


The use of the above mechanism ensures that our mail system allows only legitimate users to use our servers for SMTP. Thus we are reducing the likelyhood of unauthorized spam activities.

NOTE: If you are unable to send mail, verify that your ISP is not blocking port 25. Some ISPs are doing that as a Spam stomping measure. Unfortunately, it is a wide net and legitimate e-mail senders are caught in it. If that is so, there are really not much that we can do. We ask that you contact them and find out what SMTP (outgoing) servers they can provide for you to send e-mail.

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