Cannot find server?

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news.kc.rr.com

Recently switched web hosts for a domain and the DNS changes have taken
effect but now the Entourage client won't send email. However it will
receive just fine.

It was set to port 2525 so I changed it to port 25, no luck. Tried
different authentication options (SMTP server does require auth) and that
didn't help either, says it still can't find the server.

I can't get it to give me another error so I'm not even sure it's even
finding it to authenticate.

However when I ping the mail server or hit the web site, it's seeing the new
server just fine.

Anything else I could check? Is it a routing or firewall issue?

Thanks in advance.
 
N

news.kc.rr.com

And on one occasion, whe receiving email, it decided to send out one of the
emails in the outbox. ????

What gives?
 
B

Barry Wainwright

Possibly your ISP is using the outdated and deprecated 'pop before smtp'
authentication method. This is an old and unrelaible method that only allows
you access to SMTP for a limited time interval after you have accessed your
mailbox to download mail. If this is the case you need to receive mail
first, then send ,ail afterwards. This can be made easier with a script. Try
doing some manual tests first and write back if you need the script.
 
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