Sending mail

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Pam

I have several email accounts set up to Send/Receive in
Outlook. 2 pop3/SMTP and 1 MSN.

I dial in using MSN. I was able to send and recieve
emails from all three until recently when I updated
Windows XP and McAffee in response to the latest virus
which I did have.

Now the virus is gone, but I cant send using the POP3
accounts. MSN works fine.

What could have changed, and what can I do to send again?

The error I receive is "The specified server was found,
but there is no reponse from the server. Please verify
that the port and ssl info is correct."

I am using the default ports and have tried changing the
SPA with no luck. Not sure how to change the SSL ...
 
MSN is blocking access to all SMTP servers but their own as an anti-spam
measure. What sort of MSN account do you have? If you have a POP3 account
with them, you can point all your POP3 accounts' outgoing servers to the
MSN-supplied SMTP server and everything will work fine. In this case,
*don't* install MSN 8 or any other MSN software - it will convert your
account to an HTTP account and the solution will no longer work.

If you have an MSN HTTP account, you're up the creek - you don't have access
to *any* SMTP servers at all, so your POP3 accounts simply won't work for
sending mail. Complain to MSN, **LOUDLY**. I've pointed this flaw in their
configuration out to them, but without customer complaints they don't seem
to be willing to do anything about it. Ask them to either convert your
account to POP3 or to give you access to an SMTP server so that you can send
mail from your POP3 accounts.
 
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