Vodafone Dongal

Hi

I wonder if some techno can help me.

We use a Vodaphone dongal at the moment when in Spain, the signal is very good and the internet works very well.

My problem is with e-mail, I use outlook 2007, I get e-mails fine but I cant respond to one of send a new one, all works fine in the uk.

Any ideas

Thanks

Steve

I've not used Outlook in ages I'm afraid so I can only give you a guideline of what needs to be done.

What is happening is you're using the settings for your UK ISP in Spain and most ISP allow 'external' access to the recieving server so you can get emails but not to send.

What you need to do is create a new 'profile/account' within outlook and copy all te current info into it and for outgoing server put the one that Vodafone uses.

I believe the creating of a new profile is under the "accounts" menu.

Thanks Delza

Thats great, I can manage to do that.

When you say you have not used Outlook in ages, does that mean that other e-mail clients dont need a new profile set up?

Thanks again

Steve

Yup I moved to an ISP a few years ago that charged extra for an internal email account so decided to use a free web based one.

GMAIL , or Googlemail as it is now known in the UK seems to be the best free email provider around with unlimited space and you can also set it up to download emals from their server with outlook if you desire to have a 'local' copy of your emails on a PC.

But since I travel around a lot it's perfect for me as I just use that and can access it from anywhere in the world and it works great on my iphone also!

Gmail is by far the best free web based email solution! 

Justin

The smtp server in your account will be for your UK ISP. You cannot send email through your ISP's mail server as it is protection for them against spam. You will need to find what the smtp server settings are for Vodafone in Spain to be able to send email, or you can purchase your own domain and use their server. Or, use Gmail as suggested.

Mark

Thanks for your replies

Just signed up for google mail,

Steve

I can't answer your question but wonder if you can answer one of mine?  I use telefonica when I'm in Spain but as I'm only there for 6 months in every 12 I find the contract extremely expensive.  I am looking into other possibilities including using a dongle and wonder if you can tell me how successful you find Vodafone's dongle. Can you can use Skype with it, is 3GB sufficient for normal usage, is it Apple Mac compatible and how expensive is the 12 month contract?  I'm sorry to lumber you with all these questions but hope you may be able to help. Thanks

I know of several people who have to use the Vodafone dongle as they are unable to have a land line not alone adsl and they've very happy with it and use skype just fine.

To the expense side of things I believe it's similarly priced as a TF adsl connection but double check: www.vodafone.es

If you live in a town then you may want to look into a WIFI service as that is generally cheaper and the contracts are smaller and if you do not need to have an external aerial installed sometimes they are pay as you go!

Hey guys,

I have the spanish vodafone prepaid mobile internet usb modem. I also habe the same issues with my outgoing mail. I can receive just fine, nut sending does not work.

I offcourse changed the smtp to the spanish vodafone smtp, but it still wont work.

Doen anyone know whats going on and how to fix this so i can also send e-mail with my vodafone prepago internet?

THANK!!!

Diana

The answer lies in the port setting in Outlook. We had this problem. Go to Tools, then Options, select Mail Setup, then Send Receive.

Now select Edit All accounts, the  account properties. Thens select the advanced tab. Change the outgoing port to 25 and incoming to 110 and it should now work. Fingers crossed.

Guy

Off on a slight tangent, but are you aware that Microsoft now have a small download tool that integrates MSOutlook with you hotmail accounts.  I don't think it works with any other web based email facility.

Hi Gcarton and all others,

Thanks for your reply. I checked my port setings you mentioned in outlook express, but the outgoing and incoming ports where already set at 25 and 110, so this probably isn't my problem or my solution, unfortunately :-(

I really don't understand why it wont work.

I am also very often in Belgium and i also use a prepaid usb modem (not vodafone, but Mobistar) and when changing the smtp settings to mobistars smtp when in Belgium, sending e-mail works perfect, so i dont understand why in Spain it wont work.

I tried many different spanish vodafone smtp settings, but none seem to work. Maybe you or someone else has different smtp settings?

A guy in a spanish vodafone shop says it is: smtp . vodafone . es but this does not work for me, nor does smtp . vodafonemail .vodafone. es and mail . vodafone . es.

I really hope someone can help me...

Thanks again

Diana

The instructions for setting up the Vodafone mail is found by clicking here.

Unfortunatley, it is all in Spanish and my translator won't work on a pdf document.

Thanks...im gonna give this a try...

Keep you posted if it really works :-)

Diana

Here is a translation if it helps

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This is proving hard work.... I tried to post a solution here but the site says I cant include email or web addresses until Im "approved" now thats a bit precious for a bullitin board.....

Anyway Ive posted the solution on Vodafone uk site under Mobile Broadband in Spain