After quite some time I have decided to comment on the inability to send e-mail through Outlook 2010 while abroad. I work overseas for 6 months of the year and am almost at the end of my tether because I have to use a browser to respond to e-mail, forward e-mail and filter e-mail instead of using my main mail program which is Outlook 2010.
I cannot for the life of me understand why BT have this restriction in place, if you have to authenticate prior to sending mail (to prove you are who you say you are) and BT can monitor their servers for spammers why can't they turn on the ability to send mail from abroad? For example, I received an offer of a contract today (pretty regular in my line of work) but in order to respond to the sender I now have to open a browser and mess about instead of simply pressing 'reply', I also cannot forward the mail to another address to offer the contract to a colleague.
I have been with BT for as long as I can remember and never really had much to complain about, in fact I would say that on balance the positives outweigh the negatives, but this is a real bone of contention for me and I am now finally considering a move away from BT because of it.
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