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PM's SMTP Outgoing Server

hlkidd — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 08:20:22 GMT

Hello everyone,

I recently joined Public Mobile and I'm trying to setup my work e-mail on my phone.

What is PM's outgoing SMTP server? Which port?

Thanks!

Re: PM's SMTP Outgoing Server

canucks4life — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:22:00 GMT

smtp.telus.net port 25 should work fine using cellular data.

Re: PM's SMTP Outgoing Server

stonechucker — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:43:08 GMT

Forgive me, but don't you want the information for your work SMTP server? Why would you need the one for Public Mobile?

Re: PM's SMTP Outgoing Server

srlawren — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:08:00 GMT

@stonechucker wrote:
Forgive me, but don't you want the information for your work SMTP server? Why would you need the one for Public Mobile?

@stonechucker agreed 100%

Re: PM's SMTP Outgoing Server

stonechucker — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:11:05 GMT

@srlawren, thanks for confirming... thought I was going nuts 🙂

Had to recall my IT Helpdesk work from ages ago.

Re: PM's SMTP Outgoing Server

srlawren — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:15:55 GMT

@stonechucker although, @canucks4life's accepted solution above makes me thing PM may have outbound SMTP support? I would still use my work's mail server instead though for work account.

Re: PM's SMTP Outgoing Server

stonechucker — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:18:13 GMT

If it gets accepted to send, I'd be really surprised. Other than text messaging, I wouldn't allow any form of message be sent via the Telus server without some secure form of authorization.

Re: PM's SMTP Outgoing Server

srlawren — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:20:30 GMT

@stonechucker that was my thought, too. Isn't that relaying, if I remember correctly? Which I thought pretty much everyone turned off to prevent anyone from using your server to send out spam or worse?

Re: PM's SMTP Outgoing Server

Grampa — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 20:02:36 GMT

OP must be using BlackBerry?

Re: PM's SMTP Outgoing Server

computergeek541 — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 02:44:26 GMT

I also can't think of any reason to use a Public Mobile SMTP server. Public Mobile isn't an internet provider, and doesn't issue e-mail addresses to subscribers. Any use of Public Mobile or Telus's servers for e-mail purposes with be unauthorized and otherwise something that you're not supposed to do. You would be using someone else's/another company's e-mail servers to relay/redirect your e-mail message communications. Even the outgoing messages did go through, such relaying would likely fail e-mail security checks and get flagged as spoofing, unsafe, or as spam.

There was a day that even some of Canada's largest ISPs allowed such a security vulnerability. It was easy to spoof yourself as being someone else, and then even use the proper servers to send the messages, making the spoofed messages appear more legitimate. I tried that before as a joke to a friend (example: making it look like friends were sending messages to themselves, etc.).

Re: PM's SMTP Outgoing Server

Michael77 — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 03:20:24 GMT

I keep learning more and more each day. Thanks. 🙂