BT and SKY close the out-going email door for security reasons

Posted on December 2008 in Articles, News

BT have announced that, for security reasons, they are preventing BT Yahoo! Broadband users from sending emails from software such as Microsoft Outlook and Thunderbird, when the “From” email address is not a BT Yahoo! email address or a “validated alternative email address”. Sky stopped the use of their SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) servers to send emails.

Both of these changes have meant that many Sky and BT Yahoo! broadband users have been unable to send email until they change their SMTP settings, or in the case of BT Yahoo! customers, go through a process of validating their email address.

Web design Devon company Four Degrees West Limited would like to remind customers that we can upgrade your mailboxes to enable ‘roaming’ SMTP, which will allow you to send emails from any Internet service provider, including BT and Sky.

Four Degrees West Roaming SMTP enables you to send email using your PC software, regardless of your broadband provider (so it’s great for laptop users!). If your broadband provider stops the use of their SMTP servers, you won’t be affected if you have a Advanced or Exchange mailbox using our SMTP settings.