SMTP Servers and Outgoing Mail Servers

Below is a list of SMTP Server addresses for popular Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) providing email, dial-up and broadband connectivity within the UK.. To reduce spam users tend to have to have subscribed to an ISP’s services or be using that ISP’s dialup number if they want to use their SMTP server (i.e. be able to send email using 3rd party email client software like Outlook Express, Thunderbird etc). Below is a list of some of the main ISPs and their associated SMTP Server addresses that you will need when configuring Thunderbird to send and receive email.

Popular Known UK SMTP Providers

  • Bt Click:mail.btclick.com
  • Purplenet:smtp.purplenet.co.uk
  • Bt Connect:smtp.btconnect.com
  • BT Internet:mail.btinternet.com
  • BT Openworld:mail.btopenworld.com
  • Freeserve/Wanadoo:smtp.freeserve.co.uk
  • Freeserve:smtp.freeserve.net
  • NTL World:smtp.ntlworld.com
  • Orange:smtp.orange.net (formally Freeserve and then Wanadoo)
  • Orange (Home):smtp.orangehome.co.uk
  • Pipex:smtp.dial.pipex.com

  • Tesco:smtp.tesco.net
  • Tesconet:mail.tesco.net
  • Tiscali:smtp.tiscali.co.uk
  • Virgin:smtp.virgin.net
  • Wanadoo:smtp.freeserve.co.uk (Now Orange)
  • Yahoo:smtp.mail.yahoo.co.uk
  • BlueYonder:smtp.blueyonder.co.uk
  • Inweb Networks:post.inweb.co.uk
  • Screaming.Net:smtp.tiscali.co.uk
  • Tiscali:smtp.tiscali.co.uk
  • Totalise:mail.totalise.co.uk
  • O2:smtp.o2.co.uk

Listed Alphabetically A-Z

Amaze.net.au:mail.amaze.net.au
Ameritech DSL:mailhost.col.ameritech.net
aol:za.mx.aol.com
aol:zb.mx.aol.com
aol:zc.mx.aol.com
AT&T:smtp1.attglobal.net
AT&T:mailhost.worldnet.att.net
AT&T WorldNet:mailhost.att.net
AT&T WorldNet:mailhost.worldnet.att.net
Australink.net:mail.australink.net
bellatlantic.net:smtpout.bellatlantic.net
Bluelight.com:smtp.mail.yahoo.com
BlueYonder:smtp.blueyonder.co.uk
Bondinet.com:mail1.oznet.net.au
Breathe:mailhost.breathemail.net
bright.net:mail.bright.net
Bt Click:mail.btclick.com
Bt Connect:smtp.btconnect.com
BT Internet:mail.btinternet.com
BT Openworld:mail.btopenworld.com
BusinessServe:smtp.businessserve.co.uk
Cableinet:smtp.blueyonder.co.uk
Claranet:relay.clara.net
Comcast:smtp.comcast.net
CompuServe 2000:smtp.cs.com
CompuServe Classic:mail.compuserve.com
CWCom:smtp.ntlworld.com
DCAnet:postoffice.dca.net
Demon:post.demon.co.uk
Earthlink.net:smtp.earthlink.net
Easynet:smtp.easynet.co.uk
ee.net:mail.ee.net
Freeinet.com:mail.ma.freei.net
Freeserve/Wanadoo:smtp.freeserve.co.uk
Freeserve:smtp.freeserve.net
Gateway:smtp.gateway.net
Genie:mail.genie.co.uk
Greenbank.net.au:mail.greenbank.net.au
Hotkey.net.au:mail.hotkey.net.au
ibm.net:smtp1.ibm.net
IC24:smtp.ic24.net
icdc.com:mailout.icdc.com
INFOLINK.com:mail.nfolink.com
Interlink:mail.your-net.com
Inweb Networks:post.inweb.co.uk
IronNet:mail.iron.net
iwayNET:smtp.iwaynet.net
Jade Inc.:mail.jadeinc.com
Lineone:smtp.lineone.net
Log on America:mail.loa.com
Logicworld.com.au:mail.logicworld.com.au
Lycos:smtp.lycos.co.uk
Madasafish:smtp.madasafish.com
MegaNet:smtp.meganet.net
Microsoft’s MSN:smtp.email.msn.com
MidOhio.net:mail.midohio.net
MindSpring:smtp.mindspring.com
MindSpring:mail.mindspring.com
Mistral:smtp.mistral.co.uk
MSN.com:smtp.email.msn.com

MSN.DSL:secure.smtp.email.msn.com
NamesToday:smtp.namestoday.ws
netcom.com:smtp.ix.netcom.com
netreach.net:smtp.netreach.net
Netscapeonline:mailhost.netscapeonline.co.uk
NetSet:mail.netset.com
NetWalk.com:mail.netwalk.com
netzero.net:smtp.netzero.net
nextek.net:mail.nextek.net
Nildram:smtp.nildram.co.uk
nni.com:nni.com
Northstar Data Systems:mail.nn.net
NTL World:smtp.ntlworld.com
OneTel:mail.onetel.net.uk
On-Ramp:mail.marion.net
Orange:smtp.orange.net (formally Freeserve and then Wanadoo)
Orange (Home):smtp.orangehome.co.uk
Ozemail.com.au:smtp.ozemail.com.au
peoplepc:mail.peoplepc.com
Phone Co-op:smtp-1.opaltelecom.net
Pipex:smtp.dial.pipex.com
Prodigy:smtp.prodigy.net
Purplenet:smtp.purplenet.co.uk
rcn.com:smtp.rcn.com
redbird.net:mail.redbird.net
RichNet:mail.richnet.net
Road Runner (Insight Communications):smtp-server.insight.rr.com
Road Runner (Time Warner):smtp-server.columbus.rr.com
Road Runner (Time Warner):smtp-server.nc.rr.com
Screaming.Net:smtp.tiscali.co.uk
Spire:mail.spire.com
Supanet:smtp.supanet.com
Telewest:smtp.blueyonder.co.uk
Telocity:mail.telocity.com
Tesco:smtp.tesco.net
Tesconet:mail.tesco.net
Tiscali:smtp.tiscali.co.uk
Totalise:mail.totalise.co.uk
TPG.com.au:mail.tpg.com.au
TTLC:mail.ttlc.net
UKGateway:smtp.ukgateway.net
uu.net:uu.net
V 21:smtp.v21.co.uk
Verizon:smtp.verizon.net
Virgin:smtp.virgin.net
Vispa:mail.vispa.com
voicenet.com:mail.voicenet.com
Wanadoo:smtp.freeserve.co.uk (Now Orange)
Waitrose:smtpmail.waitrose.com
Webcom:smtp.webcom.com
Which Online:mail.which.net
Wide Open West:smtp.mail.wowway.com
Wide Open West (users with @wideopenwest.com):smtp.mail.wideopenwest.com
Worldonline:smtp.tiscali.co.uk
Yahoo:smtp.mail.yahoo.com