The Deliverable Diary

Having one or more emails stuck in your Outbox is an indication that your SMTP server settings may be incorrect, OR, your SMTP settings may be correct, but your current location could be blocking the port you are trying to use. Whether you use Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Windows Live Mail, or any other email […]

Did you know that SMTP2GO offers a sending plan completely free of charge? Our free SMTP plan allows you to send 1,000 emails per month at absolutely no cost. There is a temporary limit of 25 emails per hour until you add a verified sender domain name. If you go over your temporary hourly limit, […]

We have recently discovered that T-Mobile has changed its policy regarding SMTP servers (as of May 1st, 2010) and now requires that SMTP authentication be used. What does this mean? It means that you must enter an SMTP username and an SMTP password in your email settings if you want to be able to send […]

We have had reports that the ISP Orange, in France, has blocked the use of any external SMTP server other than their own. This is the only ISP in the world that we are currently aware of that has implemented this very strict policy. If you are using SMTP2GO, it is still worth trying to […]

Recently Gmail has provided a new feature which allows their users to get around a problem which has been complained about for years. The old problem was this: if you wanted to send emails from an email address that is not your Gmail email address, you had to accept the fact that many email clients […]