Orange email

I have an Orange phone and used to use their pop and smtp servers for
sending and receiving all my email, until use of the smtp server over
non-GPRS connections was blocked.

I haven't used the email account for a while and today I found I can login
to the Orange Webmail service over my broadband (non Orange) connection, but
cannot authenticate to their pop server using the same username and password
using OE, OL etc.

Has use of the pop server over non-GPRS connections now been blocked ?

Nick

me@privacy.net declared for all the world to hear...
> I have an Orange phone and used to use their pop and smtp servers for
> sending and receiving all my email, until use of the smtp server over
> non-GPRS connections was blocked.
>
> I haven't used the email account for a while and today I found I can login
> to the Orange Webmail service over my broadband (non Orange) connection, but
> cannot authenticate to their pop server using the same username and password
> using OE, OL etc.
>
> Has use of the pop server over non-GPRS connections now been blocked ?

No.

I can use both pop and smtp (with auth) from a non-orange GPRS
connection.
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Regards
Jon

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> me@privacy.net declared for all the world to hear...
>> I have an Orange phone and used to use their pop and smtp servers for
>> sending and receiving all my email, until use of the smtp server over
>> non-GPRS connections was blocked.
>>
>> I haven't used the email account for a while and today I found I can
>> login
>> to the Orange Webmail service over my broadband (non Orange) connection,
>> but
>> cannot authenticate to their pop server using the same username and
>> password
>> using OE, OL etc.
>>
>> Has use of the pop server over non-GPRS connections now been blocked ?
>
> No.
>
> I can use both pop and smtp (with auth) from a non-orange GPRS
> connection.
> --
> Regards
> Jon

Thank you Jon.

I played around with the settings and found that I can now both send and
receive mail via the Orange servers over a non-GPRS connection.

For smtp I had to authenticate as *@orange.net/<password>, but for pop I had
to use <mobile number>/<password>.

Does this correspond with your experience?

Regards
Nick

me@privacy.net declared for all the world to hear...
> Thank you Jon.
>
> I played around with the settings and found that I can now both send and
> receive mail via the Orange servers over a non-GPRS connection.
>
> For smtp I had to authenticate as *@orange.net/<password>, but for pop I had
> to use <mobile number>/<password>.
>
> Does this correspond with your experience?

Almost, I don't use mobile number for pop username, however I have had
my orange.net email for about 8 years and in those days you could choose
your own POP username. If you set yours up in the last few years or so
then you can use either mobile number or a randomly generated string of
letters and numbers.
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Regards
Jon