e-mail problems SMTP failure Live mail

[Worms]

Right, I have an old Freeserve e-mail address running through my BTYahoo account. The system has been working fine until yesterday morning when it refuses to let me send emails. I have altered nothing! I tried deleting and re-entering my details all to no avail. I had a BT tech bloke on to try and fix it and he's stumped (not too difficult to stump them though)!

 

My POP is pop.freeserve.co.uk port 110

My SMTP is smtp.mail.yahoo.ca port 25

My Authentication settings are *************@btinternet.com with my password, authentication box is ticked and no SSL boxes ticked. This has worked perfectly for about a year, now it doesn't. Any ideas please?

 

No error messages are posted, it just doesn't work, the error box is empty and tasks show that incoming mails are fine, just the outgoing that fails.

Edited April 17, 2013 by Worms

[Newt]

Many of the UK setups are so different from ours (BT ones especially) that I hesitate to try and help with them but I do have to wonder why your SMTP server is using a Canadian address.

[Worms]

So do I!...I tried .com, .co.uk and none of those worked either. the .ca was listed as a SMTP for my setup on a website "somewhere" and it's always worked!...until now.

[nick]

try using port 465 and tick use ssl

Edited April 17, 2013 by nick

[Worms]

try using port 465 and tick use ssl

"Failed"

 

 

but thanks anyway!

[Andy_1984]

possibly the outgoing server(smtp) address needs to be changed.

 

try: smtp.freeserve.co.uk

 

if that doesnt work try: mail.btinternet.com

 

try variations of no ssl and server requires authentication etc with each new smtp address.

Edited April 17, 2013 by Andy_1984

[Phone]

Worms

 

That's a "picnic" - - - I've had it happen to me.

 

Phone

[Worms]

possibly the outgoing server(smtp) address needs to be changed.

 

try: smtp.freeserve.co.uk

 

if that doesnt work try: mail.btinternet.com

 

try variations of no ssl and server requires authentication etc with each new smtp address.

Brilliant, mail.btinternet.com with SSL worked on port 25...I knew it wasn't my fault, the bastuds have changed the bloody settings again...but they denied it...

Thanks all and especially you Andy, end of panic!

[Steve Walker]

Sounds like that yahoo server is obsolete.

[Andy_1984]

Sounds like that yahoo server is obsolete.

 

Still online. Andrew was having some problems with sky/yahoo mail server change overs a little while ago so are probably doing a big rework of their mail system.