I had to send a mail to a swiss adress yesterday. It came back because the IP adress of the recipient was blacklisted by some stupid swiss anti-Spam list - and Maxnet uses this one too! Unbelievable, some people over there really seem to run in circles...

That made me re-search my situation and I came up with two surprises. First my german main provider now includes Pop3/SMTP access also outside of Germany, which I did not notice for some time. I now use this one and must say so far it works very good, much much better than the former german one that I used (at this time unusable, same with the Hongkong based server, that's why I tried to change back to Maxnet). Second I remembered that I have a nearly unused free GMX account which also uses Pop3/SMTP. So I tried this one too but it failed. That service requires you to have the correct (GMX) email adress when sending, otherwise they reject your mails. A pity but understandable as they have to try to avoid anonymous spamming.

So a summary looks like this: SMTP in Thailand over Maxnet is possible with foreign ISPs, but the speed and functionality you get are unpredictable and sometimes unexplainable (two major server provider in Germany, two totally different speeds and operation...).

As I seem to have some workarounds now I hesitate to sign up for the SMTP2Go service. I did not find serious test statements for it, and I would not wonder when it works in Thailand but is damn slow - and nobody will know why...

Oh dear, I'm having major problems sending emails again. I have just sent an email and it was returned immediately with the following message:

Unsolicited Bulk Email (SPAM) from you
postmaster@tttmaxnet.com

Your message to:
*********@ntlworld.com
was considered unsolicited bulk e-mail (SPAM) by our mail filters.

Subject: RE: RE: Message from **********
Return-Path: <*************>
Please Check you message
Delivery of the email was stopped!

I was just replying to a customer, it didn't contain anything that would be considered SPAM.

So in order to send this email successfully I will now have to disconnect from TT&T Maxnet and connect to GPRS, or login via webmail. This is really annoying to say the least.

Lee try getting a Yahoo or Hotmail account and if you pay 20 USD a year it even better why not give it a try just sign up for the free one and see how you like it you can always upgrade I use Yahoo and I pay the 20 bucks a year keeps it simple for me

Ron, I'm using POP3 with my own email service @udonmap.com and using TT&T as the SMTP server.
Yahoo and Hotmail also offer POP3 but I will still need to use TT&T SMTP to send emails, unless I login via the web, in which case it's no different to using my own email accounts.

Well, there is a 60 day trial period for SMTP2Go...so why not try it?
I will be interested to hear your results..

I am Using "smtp.tttmaxnet.com" for my outgoing mail and I have not noticed the problems you are talking abpout.

Techland wrote:Well, there is a 60 day trial period for SMTP2Go...so why not try it?

Yes it's certainly worth a try. I'll let you know how I got on.

lassebasse wrote:I have not noticed the problems you are talking abpout.

You're one of the lucky one's then.

I just check out techland suggestion and I want to ad it looks very good to me since I have a paid
yahoo account I am still getting tons of spam even using the filters and the 24 bucks a year to avoid that to me is worth it so I am going to try the 60 day free program and I want to thank you Techland for your post
the one thing I love about this forum believe me we learn some thing almost every day and we also make friends and of course I made a few enemies but that life like the song F/Sinatra sang

I fail to see how a different send-mail service will free your in-mail service from Spam.

Techland wrote:I fail to see how a different send-mail service will free your in-mail service from Spam.

Tech I don't have the answer it what they said in there advertising so like most of us I tend to believe them
if it does not protect me then I don't buy it very simple solution there claim was there filters will filter the spam so I do not receive any what more can I say BTW this is your recommendation never heard of it until you posted it

Seems we are talking about different things. The SMTP2Go website does not mention Spam or receiving emails, as they do not offer such servivce (no email accounts).

http://www.smtp2go.com/index.php

You might want to try gmail. Its free for both web-based email and POP. As a bonus, their SMTP uses port 465 which can get you around ISPs that block port 25 (if that's your problem).

You can still use your regular POP server for incoming if you want. Personally, I pass all my incoming email through gmail's spam filter, which is excellent.

Well I started having major sending problems from TT&T Maxnet again, so I switched over to smtp2go.com. I'm pleased to say that it's cured the problem, I can now send emails without errors.

Lee, thanks so much for testing this for us others. I would appreciate very much if you write a more detailed report after one month stating the subjective upload speed for mails with bigger attachments and the overall reliablity.