Outlook Express config.

I have temporarily moved for the next 3 months. I want to receive/send e-mails. In order to do so using the same account I was using previously, I need to change the POP3 and SMTP addresses to reflect the service provider that I am using in the new location because it isn't that same as my permanent residence(Comcast in the old location, Verizon in the new). Is this a correct assumption. If it is, how do I find out what those correct addresses are? Thanks for any help/assistance.

 

OK.this is solution for your problem:use pop. from Comcast provider,and smtp from your Verizon provider.Example:to retrive mail from my former provider adress,I type(pop.my former provider),(smtp.my present provider).Good luck.

 

Tell me something though... I have been receiving AND sending e-mails WITHOUT having changed a single thing. Is this a glitch or something?

 

from your new provider or?
If you're moving to verizon,you must obtain the pop adrress from your former provider,cos the OE will not know were to search for mail.

 

no its not a glitch the incoming can stay the same, but to send mail 90% of the time you need your current isps smtp server, not always though. To find that info, contact who ever is providing your current connection.

 

Will I receive an error message if the outgoing mail stops sending? Because right now, if everything is working correctly, I don't want to mess with it.

Thanks for the responses.

 

Try this simple test - send yourself an email. If it gets out and in successfully again when you next check your emails (without talking about any errors in the email that comes back), ComCast is a kind ISP who doesn't mind you using their server to send mail when you aren't connected to the internet through them.

If ever you get an odd error message about relaying, you will need to get hold of Verizon for details (or check their website) and change the outgoing setting, which is the SMTP one.

If you don't get any error messages, do nothing!

 

Yes, if your Comcast email account is still working, don't change anything. Save yourself the inconvenience of having to notify everyone of a change of address.

 

Excellent, as sending myself an e-mail was the first thing I tried and it worked, in addition I had about 4 others send me e-mails from very different accounts and they all worked as well.

I will lay this issue to rest. I just wanted to inquire.

Thank you all for your knowledge and suggestions.

 

Hi Usafveteran,

It's not a change of address that was possibly needed but a change of settings. As long as you still qualify to use your address, such as paying an ISP to have an address with them, you can access it through any other ISP who supplies you with an internet connection. To make it very easy to understand, I'll explain my email situation.

I have two internet accounts, one dial-up and one broadband. My dial-up provider charges a fortune for broadband accounts and my broadband provider doesn't have back-up dial-up for us but the price is quite good. I have kept my old address with my dial-up provider. (At something like $5 a year and a modest charge for hourly connection, it's worth having the cheapest dial-up plan they have for my back-up account and as a bonus, keeping my email address.) I don't have an email address with my broadband provider.

When we switched across to the broadband ISP, I had to change the settings on my email program to use the broadband provider for sending emails because my dial-up ISP won't let me send emails through their server unless I'm connected to the internet through them. On the odd occasion that we are having broadband difficulties and I resort to dial-up, I change the mail sending settings back to use the dial-up ISP until the broadband recovers, then change back to the broadband ISP again.

(No company complains about you asking to receive your mail through them; they are the only ones who could give it to you so it would be silly if they complained about who you were using to connect to the internet at the time you checked your mail. It would stop people being able to check their mail from anywhere in the world, which I think everyone can.)

So same address; the only thing that changes is which ISP I tell my email program to send the emails out through.

Hope that makes it clear.