On Wednesday 10 November 2004 16:37, Stephen wrote:
> Now that the old GP email system has gone and Outlook is broken
That surprises me somewhat - it was announced to be a clean swap.
Locally the Practices that use Outlook do so to a shared, twinned Exchange
Server maintained locally, which works quite a lot of the time albeit (I'm
spontaneously told) slowly.
> I may have to ... install a copy of Thunderbird
Not a bad idea. If you want to run an MTA on Windows to handle mail for the
whole Practice, I recommend VPOP3. An alternative is Postfix with Dovecot
In most situations you can send SMTP Direct, rather than relay, but I'm not
sure how the NHS Net firewall behaves about that, and I suspect that NHS org
MTAs tend to only accept mail from relay.nhs.uk and its counterpart
on .nhs.net
> I seem to recall there was an SMTP server (?relay.nhs.net)
Correct.
NHS Net SMTP How To: http://www.defoam.net/software/smtphow.html
relay only accepts mail from servers it knows, or at least IP addresses and
domain names it knows. I'd relay for you, but the router which I do not
control is set to only accept port 25 traffic from relay.nhs.uk, I think.
> that I might use to send out messages with the latter account -
> is this still correct or has that changed too?
Still working for us.
> I can't get it to work from Outlook.
I'm not going to help you there.
But any problems with Thunderbird, ask away.
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