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googposter
I got this error in Outlook 2000 and found many posts on google but
none of the answers/recommendations/etc seemed to work in my setup
(you have an exchange server setup in your profile, etc). Then someone
said to try telnet-ing to the smtp server. I tried this and it failed.
After checking a bit more I found that my ISP (which I had recently
changed!!) did not allow me to send mail via a different smtp server
(I had to use my ISPs smtp server). This is done to help try and
prevent spam.
Another symptom of this problem is if you can receive emails (i.e.
pop) but cannot send any (i.e.smtp).
I spent a lot of time getting to the bottom of this so hopefully this
might help someone else avoid doing the same!
none of the answers/recommendations/etc seemed to work in my setup
(you have an exchange server setup in your profile, etc). Then someone
said to try telnet-ing to the smtp server. I tried this and it failed.
After checking a bit more I found that my ISP (which I had recently
changed!!) did not allow me to send mail via a different smtp server
(I had to use my ISPs smtp server). This is done to help try and
prevent spam.
Another symptom of this problem is if you can receive emails (i.e.
pop) but cannot send any (i.e.smtp).
I spent a lot of time getting to the bottom of this so hopefully this
might help someone else avoid doing the same!