Email Tools

[michaeledward]

So, there was an email today about a 'new email' interface with our Premium Service.

But, I find myself beating my head against a wall.

It seems that my ISP is blocking port 25 (although they won't admit it in written form). At least, that is as close as I can figure out so far. I thought it would be neat to offer our clients / club members an email address "@ourdomain.com". But, if any of them had the difficulties setting up their accounts that I am dealing with ~ well, let's just say I don't want to be a full-time-un-paid technical support rep to our clients / club members.

So, next, I want to build a mailing list ... for notifications only. I don't want an discussion list. I just want to be able to do 'blast emails'. I know I can do that from my email client ~ but my boss ain't that compu-literate ... so I thought it would be easy for me to administer from this site. And I am having all sorts of difficulties getting that to happen too.


Is there a FAQ and How To for the 'new service"? Suggestions, anyone?

TIA

[tonyp]

If your ISP is blocking port 25 you can use the following alternate SMTP port. Change the settings in your email client application such as Outlook Express.
SMTP Server: alternativesmtp.myhosting.com
SMTP Port: 587

For your mailing list issue you can create an email alias. Go to emailadmin.myhosting.com, log in, and go to the Aliases section. Create a new alias and enter the email address for each person in your mailing list. Then when you send an email to the alias, all members will receive the email.