Hello.
Can anyone recommend a free or cheap outgoing mail server, to do MX resolution and send all my outgoing mail for me? I'm using Windows XP professional.
My broadband connection got pulled on Wednesday by Netservices, and I really don't want to have to keep changing the outgoing mail server settings in my mail client (Mozilla Thunderbird) each time I use a different ISP.
It's true that it's pretty easy to change this in Thunderbird - you set all accounts to send mail using the default server, then you can input a whole list of mail servers for every ISP that you might imaginably use under the "advanced" button, then simply click "select default" for the one for the ISP you happen to be using at the time.
However, I'd rather not have the hassle. I'd rather do my own MX resolution, so that I can always send email in the same way regardless of which ISP I'm using.
I believe that in theory, it's possible for a mail client to do its own MX resolution, but I have yet to find one which does this. I have successfully sent email in the past by doing MX resolution manually using a DNS client, and then reconfiguring my mail client to use the server for that particular email address before sending - but there don't seem to be any clients that automate this! Why on earth not? :shrug:
Failing that, the next best thing is to run an outgoing mail server on your own computer. Can anyone recommend any? MX resolution of outgoing mail is the only thing I need it for, I don't need it to have any other features at all, and would rather not use a bloated application that does a hundred and one other things. Thanks, appreciated.
Can anyone recommend a free or cheap outgoing mail server, to do MX resolution and send all my outgoing mail for me? I'm using Windows XP professional.
My broadband connection got pulled on Wednesday by Netservices, and I really don't want to have to keep changing the outgoing mail server settings in my mail client (Mozilla Thunderbird) each time I use a different ISP.
It's true that it's pretty easy to change this in Thunderbird - you set all accounts to send mail using the default server, then you can input a whole list of mail servers for every ISP that you might imaginably use under the "advanced" button, then simply click "select default" for the one for the ISP you happen to be using at the time.
However, I'd rather not have the hassle. I'd rather do my own MX resolution, so that I can always send email in the same way regardless of which ISP I'm using.
I believe that in theory, it's possible for a mail client to do its own MX resolution, but I have yet to find one which does this. I have successfully sent email in the past by doing MX resolution manually using a DNS client, and then reconfiguring my mail client to use the server for that particular email address before sending - but there don't seem to be any clients that automate this! Why on earth not? :shrug:
Failing that, the next best thing is to run an outgoing mail server on your own computer. Can anyone recommend any? MX resolution of outgoing mail is the only thing I need it for, I don't need it to have any other features at all, and would rather not use a bloated application that does a hundred and one other things. Thanks, appreciated.























