OUTLOOK RECEIVE BUT NO SEND

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This is a chronic problem with me when I travel and attempt to use either
wireless or cable-to-modem connection . My home ISP is Charter. Comcast
seems to be a primary source of problems. Sometimes I can work it out while
discussing it with whoever the ISP happens to be in the area I'm visiting,
especially if it's a wireless connection. The solutions each time, if any,
seem to be the result of random changes of settings that appear to work (when
they do) in no consistent pattern. I've looked at the canned solutions MS
offers in Help on many occasions and reviewed similar complaints that appear
over and over again in dialogs such as this. Why can't MS either fix the
software to eliminate the source of the problem or come up with simple and
effective troubleshooting that actually works? Using one of you internet
standby e-mail accounts is not efficient when the preponderance of your
message traffic is carried over your Outlook account. It's disgusting.
 
Comcast has changed their outgoing SMTP port from 25 to port 587. Have you changed yours in your mail setup??
 
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Tom


Peter Foldes said:
Comcast has changed their outgoing SMTP port from 25 to port 587. Have you changed yours in your mail setup??

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Yes I have. That info was given to me by the second of 2 day shift help
crews I've talked to over the past week. Last night the night crew told me
that I needed to contact Charter to resolve the problem and denied any
responsibility for the problem. The first day crew solved the problem by
rebooting their modem and by me resetting a few of my settings, but the next
morning, after a big XP Pro auto update and shutdown by MS, the feature was
once again lost.
 
Since my last note I've been doing some more fiddling and finally got it to
work. The settings are my basic home settings (including 25 on the outbound
server setting), but I tried for the umpteenth time to set "SMPT.comcast.net"
in place of "SMPT.charter.net" and the test message feature worked. I did
have to log out and back in to get the queued notes to send. I've had these
same settings at one time or another over the past several days. Who knows
and thanks for your input.
 
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