Finding proper smtp server for outgoing mail

I added my school's e-mail account and i can receive mail just fine. I'm having trouble finding the right server name to send mail from that school address.
Is there any general rule for what a server should be called, or is it specific and i need to find out from the school?

There are not har and fast rules about naming of SMTP servers. Naming convention usually results in 'mail.yourdomain.com' or 'smtp.yourdomain.com' but the naming is just a preference of whoever set up the server. You generally need to ask your mail server administrator for the name and/or access information. There are some definite caveats that are likely going to affect you however --
- Most mail admins do not allow SMTP access to their servers from off their network unless they've configured/enabled SMTP Authentication or some other way of verifying that you're really who you claim to be. Again, your mail system admin can let you know if they support this and how to configure Mail.
- It is almost always acceptable to use the SMTP server of your ISP (comcast, bellsouth, etc) regardless of the POP/IMAP account you are checking. You do not need to use your @comcast or @bellsouth email address to send through those servers.
- When in doubt about server settings, mail server admins would generally be happy with you contacting your local helpdesk or admins to be sure you're using the correct settings.

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Hello.
I'm trying to set up a basic SMTP server using OS X Server (10.5.6) so I can have devices (Server Monitor, my UPS power system alerts, router alerts, etc. — all on the local LAN/same subnet) send out mail when they need to send out alerts. These devices do not have the ability to configure SMTP authentication, so I just need to set up this outgoing SMTP server on one of my Xserves so they have a way of sending said mail.
Would anyone be willing to provide information on how I'd set this up?
I thought I had it set up correctly, but whenever I try and send a test email (from my mail.app account), I never receive anything at the intended delivery address (an email address hosted by a 3rd party)?
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Kristin.

The default mail server configuration should accept mail from local clients and relay it to the destination domain. The only gotcha would be if the mail server thinks it's authoritative for the domain you're sending to (e.g. you're sending to '[email protected]' and this server thinks it is the mail server for 'yourdomain.com'. There are various ways of overcoming this - the easiest of which is to tell the server it's not authoritative for yourdomain.com.
The mail logs will give you an indication if that's the problem - it'll either say it delivered the mail locally, or that there was some problem connecting to the remote mail server.
Either way your ISP can't be blocking outgoing SMTP traffic (well, they could, but it would be pretty stupid of them), but your internal traffic shouldn't be touching your ISP's network anyway, which may indicate a configuration problem.

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I'm sure many of you have switched over to the iPhone from a Blackberry so you'll know what I'm about to talk about. How do I change the "from" field of any outgoing mail? When you setup a mail account on a Blackberry you only need an email account, username and passwd. I'm not sure but I think Blackberry uses the same smtp for all outgoing mail and just changes the "from" field of the message to match your account right? You don't enter any type of smtp or pop3 information when you set up a Blackberry.
Here's the problem: School email is set as an imap server but there is no internet smtp server, only an intranet available smtp. If your on campus you can use the campus smtp but if your not you need an external smtp. Setting this up on a Blackberry is as simple as email, user and passwd. (there are no server settings) On the iPhone you need server settings but there is no smtp server available! Putting in a gmail or yahoo server will work but then your sending from that smtp and any replies go to that account. I need to be able to send through the gmail or yahoo or whatever smtp and still let the recipient reply to my school account. Anyone got a work around for this?
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My guess was right...
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: by 10.65.xxx.2 with SMTP id n2cs292736qbp;
Sun, 1 Jul 2007 17:17:35 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.64.153.4 with SMTP id a4mr8166863qbe.1183335455918;
Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:17:35 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from smtp03.bis.na.blackberry.com (smtp03.bis.na.blackberry.com [216.9.248.50])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id d2si2770738qbc.2007.07.01.17.17.35;
Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:17:35 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 216.9.248.50 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of [email protected])
X-rim-org-msg-ref-id:2055908612
Message-ID:<2055908612-1183335455-cardhudecombobulatorblackberry.rim.net-9402[email protected]>
Sensitivity: Normal
Importance: Normal
To: "Robert" <[email protected]>
Subject: Apple mail *****
From: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 00:17:38 +0000
Content-Type: text/plain
MIME-Version: 1.0
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Mail won't use designated server for outgoing mail

My G4 abruptly started having problems sending mail through the bellsouth.net server. Even though the Mail preferences appear correctly set (I've been using them for several years and haven't changed any Mail settings), the problems started this past week.
I have two hunches: 1) the latest Security Update caused something to go wrong. 2) something happened when I traveled recently and used my primary drive (an external HD) with my host's iMac.
I have run Cocktail, Disk Warrior, rebuilt whatis, whois, locate databases.
Mail continues to try to use the .mac server for all my bellsouth.net outgoing mail; when the popdown warning appears stating that my message will not go through as addressed, the bellsouth server does not appear as one of the choices I could send the mail through. . .I'm baffled.
I dread calling Bellsouth tech support; they are generally blithering i*ts and not worth wasting my time on. They almost always refer me back for Mac support any time there's a problem.
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my bellsouth.net outgoing mail
Not sure what you mean. Is it that Mail has problems using BellSouth's outgoing server, then asks you to choose another server and gives .Mac as the only choice? Or is it that Mail tries to use .Mac right away? Is BellSouth your ISP?
Mail keeps information about outgoing servers in a separate list, independently of any specific mail account. The account settings just associate one of the available outgoing servers with each account. Orphaned or dangling outgoing server entries (i.e. not associated with any account) sometimes cause sending problems.
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I am sorry ..may be my question was not very clear. I do not have am SMTP host. I need an SMTP host to route emails...is that possible.
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dougc84 wrote:
No.. Still isn't working. I tried the .plist edit solution (which frankly, seemed like a bad idea) and deleting all the comcast entries from the keychain. I was prompted for a password when receiving mail, but sending mail is still not working.
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Having recently discovered the hard way that I was migrated (and had no BT e-mail for 3 days), I have now discovered that all the authorisations I had set up for sending of e-mail fwith the senders address being a non-bt account have gone.
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and i am in the outgoing SMTP > ADVANCED section of mail where i have an iCloud, GMail and domain based email SMTP addresses.
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Hi Hotwheels
had similar issues. But incoming worked fine immediately, only outgoing was an issue.
(Though on iPad + iPhone both in- and out-going mails worked fine.)
I generated a password via Google only ONCE for may Mail app. And I entered it only ONCE in the settings. No other changes done.
So on the Mail application, I saw e-mails coming in. My outgoing e-mail stayed in my "outbox".
I just switched to another outgoing server. In my case, when I opened the advanced settings, a popup screen showed up with a number (approx 10) outgoing servers, all named exactly the same: "Gmail" ;-)
The one that was selected had the message "off-line" behind it and so were a couple of others.
As soon as I picked one that was apparently on-line, the mails in my outbox were send within seconds ...
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