Sending emails via commercial Wi-Hi providers

[buildersmate]

Having recently started using Wi-Fi from coffee houses and hotels, this questions relates to the SMTP settings required to send email.
Incoming email works fine, but I have to realign my outgoing settings to the ISP of the Wi-Fi provider to make outgoing email work.
When I purchased a 30 day pass to use the service provided in a well-known coffee store, I had to change the outgoing setting. The service is actually provided by T-mobile and the Help Desk told me what to do.
Now in the hotel, the outgoing mail doesn't send - presumably for the same reason - yet the hotel doesn't think there should be a problem.
I use Outlook Express, and the setting I'm referring to is at Tools/Accounts/Properties/Servers tab - and the field in the Outgoing mail (SMTP) box.

[rojash]

Who is your normal e-mail provider?
Many ISPs won't allow connection totheir SMTP servers except from within their own networks, but some provide an alternative Authenticated connection. Check with your ISP. If their server will allow authenticated connections from outside their own network, it's just a matter of changing the account settings in OE (on the serves page, check the box "My server requires authentication" then click the Settings button to configure - quite often all you need to do is select "Use same settings as my incoming mail server".)

[ACtheTROLL]

you could also look and see if your provider hasd a webmail option .... most of the biggies do

[fo3nix]

This can happen, and there's not a lot you can do.

Some gateways (such as the wifi places) will only allow certain kinds of traffic, and disallow the ports for SMTP connections.

My uni network used to do it (not anymore though, thankfully.)

How I got past it:

If your SMTP server also supports SSH, and your wifi providers support SSH traffic too (they should hopefully), then it's an easy task to create a SSH tunnel from your computer to your SMTP's server.

You'll just have to either always have the tunnel connected, or just remember to connect when you want to send email.

If you use windows, you can do this kind of thing with PuTTy.