Cannot Send Email Solutions

Scenario: You are a business person traveling around the world. You just got to your hotel room, turned on your laptop pc and are ready to answer to those very important emails that arrived while you were on the plane.

So, you open your Outlook, Thunderbird or whatever email client you have, and start answering first the most important messages. Once you finish, you click on the "Send" button, totally confident and relieved because you needed that email sent with extreme urgence.

Oh no... what happened? You received one of the following errors:

You will get this error if the user's mailbox is not local and Mail Relay is not enabled, or when the From address used with an ISP where you can send mail only if the From address is from a domain that they host for you.

When neither the sending mail address nor the recipient mail adress are locally hosted by the server, then the ISP's server may refuse to relay the message on.

This happens when you are trying to send emails through a specific ISP's SMTP server but you are not connected to the Internet through that ISP.

A server will produce a relaying denied error when an unauthorized user tries to send non local email through the server. By non local email means to a different domain.

Most Internet providers use two protocols to send and receive emails: SMTP and POP. SMTP (or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is the one used to send email out.

When you are home, you are connected to your ISP network. Since you are already in that network, you will not have problems to use your ISP's SMTP server. But when you are in that hotel room you may have problems doing it, since you might be conneting from a different ISP network.

So, it is pretty normal that you cannot send emails when traveling.

There are many things to do. You could check if it is possible to enable the authentication when connecting to that SMTP server, so you can tell him "I am not a spammer" and be able to send emails wherever you want.

You could also use webmail, but I am sure it is not the same, when you have all your emails well organized in your Outlook folders.

Going back to our scenario, maybe it's 1 am and you cannot contact anyone to check about the SMTP authentication or webmail. Is there another option?

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