I have a pop3 account that the e-mails are being picked up by outlook 2003. I also have an exchange account. I am trying to forward e-mails from my pop3 account in outlook and they keep comming back with a 550 relaying prohibited error. any suggestions?

Are you able to send emails from your pop3 account?

550 error is usually a misconfiguration of your SMTP server. There are two possible reasons as I'm aware:

- You didn't configure your SMTP properly for your SMTP server. Almost all SMTP serers require authentication.
or
- You SMTP server only allows local connection.

ok th anks. Now, what do you mean by it requires athentication? and how can I configure it to allow connection other than a local connection?

and as well it allows us to do the forwards sometimes but not always.

Check your email account configuration, did you fill in user name and password for outgoing server?

ya I did. I filled in all the fields and they are right.