Hi Flex, Hi Zentara, Hi rpnoble419,

Well the general advice seems to be try another port, it sounds like good advice. I'll try one later today.

Another piece of info is that my current router is a '3' MyFi router (ie a sim card), so I guess ISP's spamming restrictions maybe harsher, I recall that when I used a t-mobile data card, they had to provide me with an smtp server, maybe 3 is the same, I'll check it out.

Regrads

Steve

Steve_BZ,

Are you trying to connect directly to a MTA?

The preferred method is to send the email to your mail machine ( MTA ), and let that machine (MTA) deliver the mail for you.

When using a dynamic IP address most ISPs will require Pop-before-SMTP or SMTP authentication before allowing you to send mail to their users

Thank you

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

Hi Ed,

The way I think Mail::Sender works is like most clients, it logs on to the server (ie my ISP, in this case I am using a private sevice called authsmtp (which I recommend, although you have to pay a minimal fee for it) using these parameters:

            auth => 'PLAIN',
            authid => 'user',                  # Change this.
            authpwd => 'password',             # Change this.
            smtp => 'mail.authsmtp.com',
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then it sends from my email address, which has already been registered on the service. I was sure it would work, but as we speak, no light is shining at the end of the tunnel :(

Regards

Steve

As you are using a myfi router, your host may be blocking your ip address as it is a dynamic ip. When I travel in the US and use hotel ip addresses or my Verizon mifi I get blocked. I need to copy the task to my server inorder to send email.

use this url to see if your ip address has been blocked. http://postmaster.rr.com/amIBlockedByRR

Hi Guys,

Well port => 587 seemed to do the trick.

Thanks for all your help.

Mail::Sender really is a nice little tool try it out if you haven't already.

Regards

Steve.