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kitchin
02-12-2008, 02:14 PM
Another "email system" question. Say someone really wants their own domain mail to come to their @SBCGLOBAL.NET address. And they get a lot of spam even after SpamAssasin filtering with a custom delete script for spams over 6.0.

1. Forward to @sbcglobal.net. Bad idea, makes their domain look like a spam vector.

2. Questmail webmail access only. Considering that. If they want to archive particular messages, they can forward those messages. But they will never get around to deleting old mail, so would have to put in a script for that, maintain it, eck. Already the 300MB account is 80MB over the limit.

3. Outlook, add an account. Does sbcglobal.net block port 25 for outgoing mail? Already it's going to be a pain to tell them to set up a message rule filtering the new account mail to its own folder, not covered in the FQ tutorial here, which I hope is still up-to-date for Outlook 11:
http://www.aota.net/Email/outlookexpress.php4

4. Gmail with POP. But most people just want email in one place, not in Outlook and Webmail.

Whatdayathink?

Blah on email support. Google must pay people a lot to deal with this dross.

Randall
02-12-2008, 03:45 PM
Does sbcglobal.net block port 25 for outgoing mail? They've been doing that for a while now in my neck of the woods. There might still be parts of the network that don't, but I wouldn't bet on it.

BTW, if they've got an SBC/Yahoo (well, AT&T/Yahoo now) account set up -- I think it's http://att.my.yahoo.com these days -- you can forward their ISP mail to FQ, the reverse of #1.

Randall

kitchin
02-12-2008, 06:02 PM
Thanks, I think I will tell them to use the sbcglobal.net SMTP server then. If it authenticates off the other account.... grrrr........

kitchin
02-12-2008, 07:00 PM
The screenshots on the FQ help screen for Outlook are not even close to Outlook 11 / MS Office 2003:
http://www.aota.net/Email/outlookexpress.php4

That thing should have "Outlook" removed from its title
"Setting Up Additional Accounts in Outlook & Outlook Express"

I need to put up a tutorial of my own, so I will probably email a copy to the FQ service desk when I get it done, tomorrow.

Randall
02-12-2008, 07:26 PM
The screenshots on the FQ help screen for Outlook are not even close to Outlook 11 / MS Office 2003 I know, Outlook just gets uglier every year. :rasberry:

Let's not even talk about Outlook 2007 (http://www.hanselman.com/blog/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/BestOutlook2007ImprovementIncludeCalenda_FB8E/outlook2007calendar%5B6%5D.png). <Shudder>

Randall