Re: BT Bother !

["Matthew Norman" <mafiu@xxxxxxx>]

I buy in to another email service - not free - but when I got my btopenworld broadband I moved the yahoogroups mailings to the open world account - this means I can pop my email off at home and use the webmail feature when at work.

 

WHENEVER I try and post to the group via webmail I always get 'Cannot send, cannot connect to SMTP server'  - which is a bit rich for their own webmail..

 

I always end up posting via the yahoogroups page..

 

HTH

 

Matthew  (Just ordered my tivo - the weekends postings were too much for me.  I tried to be strong....  Trouble is MR tonks wont ship to my work..  so the purchase will be spotted by the domestic authorities...  I'm in trouble now...)

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Kevin Wood

To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:33 AM

Subject: RE: [ukha_d] BT Bother !

Are you saying the problem is with getting into the SMTP server at BT for sending e-mails rather than getting the connection to the internet itself?

If so, I nave noticed the same problem, although I only use BT at work so I am not sure whether it happens at 10 PM.

 

It seems that their SMTP server gets very busy at times. I haven't analysed exactly what is happening but I would hazard a guess that the poor thing is just overloaded. It would be interesting to see if any ADSL users have seen this problem because, of course, they may be using the same server - in which case I'd bet the problem is the same.

 

I'm afraid there's not much you can do about it if you can't talk to someone with enough nouse to know it's not a connection problem...

 

If you do want to go to another ISP you could of course send mail using their SMTP server and pick it up from BT's POP3 server but it's a bit of a waste to keep the BT account going just to keep the e-mail address.

 

Kevin

 

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