@LizSJ -- I can never send Shaw emails using my android cell phone when I am on ANY wifi anywhere in the world.
Which means if I am out of country and don’t have data I cannot send any emails or reply to an incoming one.
Correct, unless you enter your Shaw ID/password onto Shaw's WebMail site. Then, you can "receive" and "send".
Which E-mail client program are you using on your device?
Everywhere on the Internet, mail-servers are configured to accept E-mail only from IP-addresses that are on their own network. This prevents spammers from connecting to Shaw's mail-server from their non-Shaw Internet Service Provider, and "dumping" their spam message through Shaw. This also is preventing you from sending when you are "anywhere-else".
Shaw does have "authenticate-before-send" as a configuration option -- your E-mail client program first sends your Shaw ID/password, to authenticate that you are a customer of Shaw. After authenticating, you can send through Shaw's mail-server.
What is wrong with Shaw? No problem with sending from gmail.
Yes, GMAIL is a "web-mail" type of service, where you first enter your ID/password, to authenticate. Use Shaw WebMail.
I am on the verge of cancelling Shaw.
And going to Telus? A while ago, Telus "outsourced" all its E-mail "back-end" processing to GMail. So, switching to Telus is a possible solution, since you are familiar with using the web-mail interface offered by GMail.
This has gone on for over one year.
True. All the ISPs have mail-servers that only accept E-mail from their customers' computers/device. Spammers be gone!
P.S. A few times, Telus has offered me $20/month, for the remaining months on my two-year Value Plan, if I were to terminate my Shaw contract, and switch to Telus. So, if you do talk to Telus, be sure to get that offer, if it still is available.
