SMTP and outgoing email account

[ritchie83]

Is there any software out there that could tell me what's my SMTP address is and what my outgoing email account is; of course, i want to obtain them without calling the Helpdesk/IT admin or the Service provider.

[DonRayner]

Open up a command window and ping your smtp server IE

ping smtp.MyISP.com

You will get a responce something like

Pinging smtp.MyISP.com [###.##.###.###]......

The ###.. will be the IP number for your SMTP server.

There is no outgoing email account for SMTP. all your ISP will require is for you to be connected through your account with them. IE if you deal with CompanyA but are logged onto the net through CompanyB, you won't be able to use SMTP.CompanyA.com to send your mail. But you should be able to use SMTP.CompanyB.com to send and still log onto the POP server for CompanyA to receive your email.

[Arulmurugan]

Hello,
If your naetwork is managed by DHCP, then DHCP server can able to provide you the SMTP server address.
Other wise there is no way to get SMTP server address,
but you can able to find the mail exchanger get way.

To find the mail gateway:

vel# dig -t MX gmail.com

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> -t MX gmail.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 17084
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;gmail.com. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
gmail.com. 504 IN MX 40 alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com. 504 IN MX 5 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com. 504 IN MX 10 alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com. 504 IN MX 20 alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
gmail.com. 504 IN MX 30 alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. 152 IN A 209.85.135.114
alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. 53 IN A 209.85.143.114
alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. 53 IN A 209.85.143.27
alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. 5 IN A 216.239.59.27

;; Query time: 268 msec
;; SERVER: xxx.xxx.xx.com
;; WHEN: Fri Feb 13 09:29:55 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 214

vel#

C:\Users\manickam>nslookup
Default Server: xxx.xxx.xx.com
Address: y.y.y.y

> set type=MX
> gmail.com
Server: xxx.xxx.xx.com
Address: y.y.y.y

Non-authoritative answer:
gmail.com MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l..com
gmail.com MX preference = 20, mail exchanger = alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l..com
gmail.com MX preference = 30, mail exchanger = alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l..com
gmail.com MX preference = 40, mail exchanger = alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l..com
gmail.com MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = gmail-smtp-in.l.google

gmail.com nameserver = ns1.google.com
gmail.com nameserver = ns2.google.com
gmail.com nameserver = ns4.google.com
gmail.com nameserver = ns3.google.com
alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com internet address = 72.14.247.27
alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com internet address = 216.239.59.27
alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com internet address = 209.85.135.114
alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com internet address = 209.85.135.27
gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com internet address = 209.85.217.5
alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com internet address = 209.85.143.114
alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com internet address = 209.85.143.27
ns2.google.com internet address = 216.239.34.10
ns4.google.com internet address = 216.239.38.10
ns3.google.com internet address = 216.239.36.10
ns1.google.com internet address = 216.239.32.10
>
Regards,
Arul