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Loki · RV-Dreams Family Member

Email sending problems with many RV park WiFi's

bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

Many won't let you send via the standard SMTP port of 25 unless you are using the internet providers own SMTP servers. Check with your email provider and see if you can use an alternate port (587 for gmail, 3535 for godaddy.com email) and you probably need to log on to the SMTP server.

Loki · RV-Dreams Family Member

Thanks, Bill, that was it. My email address is on a domain that is registered with GoDaddy, and using port 3535 works!

Jack Mayer · RV-Dreams Family Member

Loiki, that will work most of the time...but even that is blocked on some systems.....the reason is for spam squashing....

Use the web interface if that does not work.

In fact, I recommend a web interface for most people. That way you always have "synched" email on all devices. With multiple access methods the management aspects with Outlook or another email reader are a nightmare and require far too much "effort" for me. With constant (or almost constant) connection to the Internet, a web interface makes far more sense for me. I was REALLY reticent to give up my "local" email storage, but it has not proven to be an issue at all. And gmail does allow local storage. As do others.

Think about it - it will make most peoples lives far easier.....

bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

I haven't encountered any place blocking my email using an alternate port, but we mostly use our own internet and not park wifi. It was just luck that you also were using GoDaddy for email, I was just using it as an example where I could quickly find the info. But I did change the port on my email due to park wifi not allowing normal STMP to work.

I guess I don't trust the cloud as much as Jack. Maybe because we have RVed in Canada and did not have internet all the time, even with satellite internet. Maybe because I have seen servers die and server backups not restore properly. Maybe because of all the cloud services that have gone away, especially photo websites, causing their users to scramble to retrieve their data if they can. Trusting companies to maintain my important files is scary to me, since I have seen the bean counters cut budgets thin for maintenance many times in my life. But it seems to work for many others.

Jack Mayer · RV-Dreams Family Member

Bill, I get the picture and I have the same unease about the cloud in general. However, a major operator like Google is about as unlikely to have an issue where you lost anything/everything as anyone could. PLUS, you CAN keep an image on your laptop if you like.

I backup major files to the google Drive (cloud) but I also use an elaborate local backup strategy as well. I go as far as cloning my drives to other physical drives every 2 weeks, plus I have a NAS which continuously mirrors my data, PLUS I copy my data to a USB hard drive (once a week), PLUS I copy critical files to a USB thumb drive that is carried in the truck.