What does SMTP stand for? - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

So what is it, and is it really that simple? Well, anytime you press SEND in your email program, you are using SMTP - it is the universal method of getting emails from your computer into the internet's mail delivery system. Simple? Ever get messages like these ?

Chances are, if you're seeing this message often, or something like it, you're a laptop user who moves between home, office and other locations all the time, and in each location you use a different method of connecting to the internet. Maybe at home you have ADSL, at the office, you just plug into the network, but you also have a modem so that you can dial the net from a hotel room or a client's office.

This is where the Authenticated part comes in. Room101's outgoing mail servers have the ability to recognise your computer wherever you happen to be, and whatever method you're using to connect to the net.

What does this mean for you? Basically, this gets around the need to constantly reconfigure your email settings each time you plug in somewhere else. This might be especially valuable to you if you normally rely on someone else to set things up for you. You just want one lot of settings which will work. Period. Call us about it!

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Many of the people expressing an interest in this service recently, have been customers of one or two large British internet providers (no names mentioned here!) who are finding that the SMTP servers provided by these companies are unreliable. They're either offline during busy periods such as Thursday or Friday afternoons, preventing clients from sending any mail, or they're very slow, taking a long time to accept your emails when you press SEND, or recipients taking too long to receive your emails once you've sent them. In rare cases, they've even seen emails disappear altogether! Don't be held hostage by your current ADSL provider! You might have signed a year's contract with them, but our Authenticated SMTP service lets you use Room101's mail servers for sending mail, without having to change your existing internet access provider (which might be satisfactory in other respects).