Am logged onto friend's wireless system.Can receive email but not send.Need Yahoo's Outgoing Mail Server SMTP.

I am visiting in Juneau from Seattle. I use MS Office 2003 Outlook and my carrier is Comcast. I am logged into my sister's wireless system (cable) and typed in her WEP key and am receiving all my emails but cannot send any. A friend said I needed to go in and change my current Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) to that of my sister's. I tried to find that out yesterday but read where that information is not available. Can you help me? I will be here in Juneau for another 2 wees and desperately need to be able to send e-mails without having to go to my sister's computer.

Am logged onto friend's wireless system.Can receive email but not send.Need Yahoo's Outgoing Mail Server SMTP.
Go to the yahoo help section. See site below. This will give you all the information you will need. Unfortunately, I have difficulty in figuring out what the heck all this POP stuff means. I'm too unfamiliar with the jargon. Sorry, but at least you can try to figure it out yourself. I hope this will do the job. Good luck. R





Another thing, I have VerizonWireless, which allows me to log in where ever I may be. Are you familiar with that? It is pretty cool to be able to go anywhere and go online. Check it out. FFT (Food For Thought)
Reply:You are experiencing an unfortunate result of what is currently being billed as a dispute on net neutrality. In a nutshell, Outlook needs to be able to connect to a POP3 server to receive your email. To send email, it needs to connect to an SMTP server. Unfortunately, many service providers are now blocking access to remote SMTP servers (an email server not on their network) and charging a premium fee for access to it. Additionally, to help combat SPAM, some service providers are blocking access to their SMTP servers unless you are on their network.





So, if at home, you have Comcast as your email host, and you are in Juneau, and Comcast blocks access to their SMTP server from remote networks, you won't be able to send email. You can check to see if Comcast has a "Webmail" site that allows you to log into a web site they host, to send emails from their account.





Hope this helps.
Reply:You may have to pay for the yahoo service to use it with outlook. Just use the yahoo site.