Vodafone gr.

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giolconda

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Vodafone gr. seem to have stopped providing the SMTP server for email.
I was wondering what peeps were doing to overcome this problem as in what you are using as a primary or an alternative. We were using their SMPT for sending email through MS office outlook.

I really don't know why Vodafone gr. have withdrawn this service, it seems a tad crazy to us.

Any advice would be appreciated.
 
I cannot answer your particular problem but, on the islands Vodaphone is rubish compared to cosmote, the 3G signal is less or not available, even the normal phone signal is worse, OTE simply turns up the gain and blocks Vodaphone out. I can stand next to a vodaphone phone user he will have no signal, my cosmote will have 5 bars.
 
To be fair, we've had very few problems until now with the vodafone gr data or voice cards, and this is the third year of using them!

They were the only one's willing to give us a data contract at the time with no Greek fixed abode.
We do take your point about OTE though, but this as you say does not solve our problem.

Other than cancelling the contract and starting afresh, for information we get 5GB a month for just over €20's

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Try setting up a gmail account and using their SMTP server. You can use any email address as 'From' but IIRC you have to specify it in your gmail account.

Voda might not allow SMTP through though. Or they might block the secure port (some Greek marina wifi systems do that - but I don't think it's deliberate).
 
giolconda said:
Vodafone gr. seem to have stopped providing the SMTP server for email.
I was wondering what peeps were doing to overcome this problem as in what you are using as a primary or an alternative. We were using their SMPT for sending email through MS office outlook.

I really don't know why Vodafone gr. have withdrawn this service, it seems a tad crazy to us.

Any advice would be appreciated.
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to avoid the problem outlined I have, for many years (1986) used a browser e-mail client such as hotmail or gmail.
The only disadvantage is the occasional DNS outages they have (particularly with hotmail over the last few weeks).
I'm using Vodafone Greece and, whilst it costs more than WIND last year, its big weakness is the Huawei USB modem - have had 3G coverage (usually 2-5 bars) in all the 11 islands in which I've been through the Dodecanese and Cyclades, only losing it at Elafonisis and Kayio on the Peloponnesus.
 
We switched from Vodafone to Cosmote this year for two reasons the first being coverage the second Cosmote offer a better PAYG service, we are in Alcadia. We have however recently been experiencing DNS server errors during peak times despite having 5 bars HSPA, but its ok early morning and during the siesta.
 
SMTP and DNS

Most providers block SMTP access to domains outside of their own network, all UK providers tend to and started doing it in the late 90's. If they get you locked to their email account, your a repeat customer ;-)
as suggested by others, use a webmail interface from your email provider instead when you get this problem.
The problem with using one address, but sending out through a different domain, eg you use E1_1966@o2.co.uk but send out through smtp.vodafone.gr is that you are doing exactly what a spammer does. Dont be surprised if your emails never get to the recipient, or end up in the spam folder.

Vodafone and OTE/COSMOTE all have problems with their DNS. Look up on internet according to flavour of Windoze and change DNS in TCP/IP settings to use google ( 8.8.8.8 ) or similar.

Hope that helps
Cheers
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If you send through a gmail SMTP server but from another email address it adds a 'sender' header to the email, presumably so that spam can be traced:

from:youraddress@whateverdomain.com
sender:yourusername@gmail.com

This can apparently be a problem in some circumstances - eg mailing lists.

So the recipient can see the gmail address, but normally only if they examine the headers. Their replies should go to the 'from' address - unless you specified 'reply to'

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=22370

Webmail is fine if that's what you want. A mail client has advantages and disadvantages - one disadvantage being that some mobile services don't support it. But I've use a mail client with Cosmote, Wind GR, and Turkcell with a third-party authenticated SMTP server (not gmail).

I too use google's DNS server.
 
DaveRo said:
If you send through a gmail SMTP server but from another email address it adds a 'sender' header to the email, presumably so that spam can be traced:

from:youraddress@whateverdomain.com
sender:yourusername@gmail.com

This can apparently be a problem in some circumstances - eg mailing lists.

So the recipient can see the gmail address, but normally only if they examine the headers. Their replies should go to the 'from' address - unless you specified 'reply to'

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=22370

Webmail is fine if that's what you want. A mail client has advantages and disadvantages - one disadvantage being that some mobile services don't support it. But I've use a mail client with Cosmote, Wind GR, and Turkcell with a third-party authenticated SMTP server (not gmail).

I too use google's DNS server.
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Thank you all for the advice, we would have liked to have kept outlook on ms office but could not find an easy way of doing this. We have settled for Gmail and all seems well. Thanks again
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