Man this is the best kept secret in the entire telecoms industry … I've been trying to send email through PLDT's SMTP servers as I'm a broadband customer of theirs, and my normal SMTP server wasn't working. I needed to get an email out, and I was getting a little desperate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So apparently the published SMTP servers don't actually work. Yay! If you try looking on the PLDT website, where you might expect to see this kind of useful information … well just don't bother. You get seasick pretty quickly from all the flash whoopiness, and the dead ends and 404 start to piss you off after a while. So then you do a few google searches and come up with a couple of published servers, which basically don't work: smtp.info.com.ph and smtp.pldtdsl.net<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, eventually I cracked and went to the Customer Hotline. After re-phrasing my question several thousand times until I was understood, the answer was … smtpdsl4.pldtdsl.net , using port 587. Which actually works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Port 587, yes of course, why didn't I guess that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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