Sending Email from P800 : Anybody had the same problem?

What network are you on and what email ISP are you using?

Cheers and God bless, The_Hog_Rider...

[quote="amfawcett"]I've set my P800 up on GPRS. Email receives fine but when i try to send i get the message:

"Email message has an invalid "to","Cc" or "Bcc" address.

Anybody had a similar problem or know of a solution?

[email protected][/quote]

Almost always an SMTP Auth problem with this symptom.

I have had same problem. I had several situations that cause this message. I think it is "generic" for "I'm not sure why it didn't go through". In my case, 1st was extra dots in server URL and also in account (and probably in password). Reentering solved this.

Second has to do with GPRS. If you haven't connected to the internet for a period of time (forgot the term for this), your ISP will drop the connection. They use Dynamic IPs so they get more usage out of the IP address pool (than CDPD with static IPs). So each time you connect, you have a new IP. Our email server only allows SMTP (sending) for IPs that have successfully logged in to the POP (receiving). So, for us to send, we have to first receive, then we can send. The first message we get on sending is same as yours.

Too bad that Get and Send actually means Send and Get, otherwise, the send would work the first time.

I had the same problem last week. It was down to the fact that the ISP didn't allow sending of emails when not using their network service. i.e a cable ISP (blueyonder in my case) when sending an email from my work network or a PDA/smart phone user sending via GPRS.

This happened even if SMTP authentication was used. I did. however find that I was allowed to send to users within the same domain, e.g. to [email protected] but I'm not sure why that should be.

[quote="GaryG"]... Our email server only allows SMTP (sending) for IPs that have successfully logged in to the POP (receiving). So, for us to send, we have to first receive, then we can send. ...
Too bad that Get and Send actually means Send and Get, otherwise, the send would work the first time.[/quote]

Yeah, my main POP and SMTP site does the same -- you must POP within a few minutes before SMTPing, essentially this is to prevent people trying to hijack the SMTP service for spam. Trouble is, not just the P800, but almost every email package I find does the same; sends first then receives 😞

One day someone will figure out that it would be nice to have the option to receive first.

All very interesting - does anyone have a solution - I've got the same problem.

In hope.

J

You can set your SMTP to your GPRS/GSM provider,
but continue to read your POP3 from your own ISP.

I do this for several accounts, so everything reads from my own POP address, but sends to the SMTP mail server of the account concerned
(mail.vizzavi.co.uk for Vodafone GPRS in UK, com.lmt.lv for LMT GSM in Latvia etc)

Thanks JulesG.

It costs more on gsm though!

Enjoy your drink.

J

You can set your SMTP to your GPRS/GSM provider,
but continue to read your POP3 from your own ISP

Sorry Jules G - I'm being thick but how do you do this on the P800

J

You can send emails from the MMS menu instead, it will list your phonenumber as email for example 91723234 [email protected]. Just write the MMS and attach anything to it and from the menu choose and email address to send to.

Also sometimes it works if instead of SMTP you use SMTPAUTH.....and the rest of the stuff, some networks use this for out of house logging.

Good luck!