Comments on: Port forwarding on your Orange Livebox

By: Solution Exists, but Good luck

Solution Exists, but Good luck — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:55:39 +0000

Martin, Orange and Outlook is a tough combo.

Same deal here, no matter which port I tried 25, 465, 587, or even a non-standard port to my mail server, Orange blocked it.

If you attempt to send email using a non-orange smtp server, they block it; if you attempt to send email using an orange smtp server, then you must authenticate using your Orange email address (which means recipients will reply to your Orange email address, not at all desirable for my business needs)

For business owners who want to send outgoing emails from a non-orange based email address, the “only” way I have found that works is to use SSH port forwarding. Most people will have zero idea what this means and probably not an available option. Anyway for the techies out there who have their email running on a Linux box, do the following:

ssh -L 587:localhost:587 user@yourIPaddress

Can try on standard smtp port 25 as well. Then all you have to do it set the smtp server to localhost in your email client (since you are forwarding the remote Linux smtp onto your local computer which gets around the Orange smtp blocker)

Voila, it works, thank god! Spent hours troubleshooting this, and can now stop wasting time working in webmail….

By: Good luck

Good luck — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:33:02 +0000

Martin, you are SOL with Orange and Outlook.

Same deal here, no matter which port I use 25, 465, 587, or even a non-standard port to my mail server, Orange blocks it.

If you attempt to send email using a non-orange smtp server, they block it; if you attempt to send email using an orange smtp server, then you must authenticate using your Orange email address.

Great, so when I send business email and want the recipient to reply to my non-orange business email address, it looks like it’s a no go, absurd, I have never encountered this crap before, have always been able to relay via the ISP smtp server.

Trying to SSH port forward 25 on my Linux mail server to localhost on my orange connected computer, but still no luck, the f-ers!

By: james

james — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:39:32 +0000

when i try to access the site it asks for a username and password which i was never given. any suggestions?

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:27:41 +0000

I have a Livebox installed by Orange.fr and as you can probably guess I can get no answer from them as to why I cannot send emails via Outlook. It is a setting but I can’t find out which one. Can anyone help?

By: Stupid Connection Problem

Stupid Connection Problem — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:27:55 +0000

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By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:40:34 +0000

Is it easy to connect a Blueray DVD Player to the Live box?

By: Asiriya

Asiriya — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:30:45 +0000

I’ve forwarded my ports, but find that after two or three weeks the ports will no longer forward properly. Do you know why this might be?

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:23:42 +0000

Hello,
Does anyone know if it is possible to forward more the 2 ports on ftp with the live box?
Also I would like to forward (FTPS)SSL ports, but there doesn’t seem to be an option in the drop down list, anyone know if it is possible to do this with the livebox?
thanks

By: Someonelse

Someonelse — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:30:40 +0000

Hello Peeps,
I have an Orange livebox communicating via wireless with my mobile.
I also have a PC this is intended for us solely for music composition- Protools, Cubase etc- not internet due to past trojans etc which- like every other pc problem I get, always demands- on advice- total clean re install.
I would like to have my telephone- the landline or the second line able to call up on my pc, so that I could record interviews with people in distant countries for subsequent re transmission .
I can do his via Skype, butwish to do it with my BT phone line in.

Also. since need to occasionally connect my PC to the net for upgrades and such, is there some way one can connect say direct -PC/ Livebox, via the supplied/ redundant -modem cable?
Am not at all techy and read the information about using pc/livebox as a server or whatever, but the words – no doubt very wise and written by someone of monumental intellect-did not make sense to my tiny brain and I havn’t a clue what it was all about.
Thanks for your attention.

By: Using your home computers as web servers with Livebox

Using your home computers as web servers with Livebox — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:18:33 +0000

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