Resolved Windows mail disallows SMTP port change.

Vista HP SP1
WM 6.06

Windows mail will allow, but does NOT save any SMTP port changes.

I need port 587 and not 25 to allow sending of mail.

Problem is, everytime I exit WM or reset the PC, it reverts to port 25.

I searched the registry for SMTP and the decimal VALUE was 25.

I modified this to HEX 24b (decimal 587) within the correct email account record.

Despite re-booting it still insists on defaulting to 25

Can this be fixed?

Or is this just another Vista idiosyncrasy we have to live with?

Come back XP/Outlook Express.

Microsoft are a bit like some British politicians - insular, arrogant, uncaring, dishonest and totally unaware of what effect their inexplicable behaviour has on the majority of us, who just want a quiet life!

 

Hi PeteC

Unfortunately, the link and google search link you indicate, only seem to deal with CHANGING the port to avoid getting a server error message.

If you re-read my thread, that is NOT the problem.

The problem is:

Windows mail will allow, but does NOT save any SMTP port changes

Dave

 

Correct!

As I said;

"The problem is:

Windows mail will allow, but does NOT save any SMTP port changes "

(At least for more than the current session - In other words, (at the risk of further repeating myself);

"If I exit WM or re-boot the PC, the SMTP port setting of 587, (which has worked fine up to that point), has defaulted back to 25 when re-loading WM ".

This of course doesn't work, so I have to change the value again, which of course disappears if the session is ended, and so on and so forth, ad infinitum.

Oh and PS - I never mentioned "Server error message???" in my first post.

 

Hi TonyT - sounds feasible, I will check and let you know. For the record I use Trend TIP, and prior to changing ISPs, (now using Three.co.uk mobile broadband), obviously didn't have this problem.

What makes it worse is the fact that I have several accounts set up with differing return addresses, so changing them all everytime is a ball ache.

Meanwhile, I have downloaded the Thunderbird offering from Mozilla to try.

I don't particularly like Vista (still, after 18 months of persevering), or Window Mail anyway.

So I will install the Mozilla stuff and check it out (just hope it's not like Chrome!)

Cheers

 

Worth trying, . . . . but No cigar!

Changed the allocated SMTP ports in firewall for W/Mail, but guess what?

Still loses info, which thinking about it was obvious.

The AV stuff would prevent the 'alien' ports being used possibly, but change the saved settings of the prog? - unlikely.

Nice try though - next?

 

Hi

I still have this unresolved problem with Windows Mail on Vista HP SP2.

1) Brief recap:

I needed to change the smtp port number to work with my mobile phone connection.

(For some reason they were blocking 25)

WM worked fine until I exited, when it 'lost' the port change and reverted to 25.

I even tried looking in the registry - no joy.

I have just been re-entering the port number change each time I have loaded the prog.

The plot has thickened!

I have just discovered that it is not only port number changes that are not saved, also changes to Server detail is lost if the prog is closed and restarted.

This has just come to light, because my dope of an Email provider company(Easypost), have decided to drop their OK system for the biggest heap of c**p since nellie the elephant passed by, and left her calling card in the road!

When I put in the new pop3 and smtp URL's and tried it, it sent and received mails fine - no problems.

After the Pc was closed down and re-started, it didn't work. On investigation I discovered that, like the port numbers, the server detail had reverted to the old settings.

Is it possible that WM has become corrupted?

The system is Vista Home Premium SP2 fully patched

Do I need to bite the bullet and try WLM or can this be fixed?

Dave

 

Resolved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TonyT
You are a star!
Just got to delete / replace the other 8 accounts now!

Cheers and thanks for that

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