Really hate Outlook Express!!!!?!?

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Had this issue for almost a year now, Microsoft themselves has been of little help:rolleyes:. I still cannot send email from my business account on my laptop when I'm at home. At the office, no prob. My business partner can be at my house and send/receive email, I can receive but not send...gives me an error message on the send part.

Drives me nutz as I have to copy everything into Yahoo and go from there back and forth, checked settings, compared to what partner has (we setup the same in office), yet I still cannot figure out what is wrong???
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Sounds wierd and frustrating Surfer. Hope someone on here knows the fix.
 
Surfer said:
Had this issue for almost a year now, Microsoft themselves has been of little help:rolleyes:. I still cannot send email from my business account on my laptop when I'm at home. At the office, no prob. My business partner can be at my house and send/receive email, I can receive but not send...gives me an error message on the send part.​


Drives me nutz as I have to copy everything into Yahoo and go from there back and forth, checked settings, compared to what partner has (we setup the same in office), yet I still cannot figure out what is wrong???​
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This kinda reaminds me of one of James Bond moves, where it was requested "to make sure that software is full of bugs, which means people will have to update for years..."
 
check to make sure your SMTP setting is correct. Click on tools, accounts. Find your account, click properties. Click on the servers tab and go down to SMTP server and make sure the setting is correct. Is this the same computer you are using at work? If so, then it's a different problem.
 
I'll take a stab at this.

First your outgoing server..

Is it giving you an error like "RELAYING DENIED" when you try to send email from home?

And if any errors list them please.


Sometimes ISPs i.e bellsouth, comcast. Require you to use there outgoing email server when sending email through diffirent domains on there server.


Advise.....
 
here ya go boss;)

ISPs blocking port 25

In an effort to stop spam, many ISPs (Comcast, Cox, many others) block all traffic to port 25 on anything except their own SMTP servers. This plays out like this:
Say you configure your laptop's "Outgoing Mail Server" to use smtp.mycompany.com port 25. When you test sending e-mail, it works, because you're not subject to Comcast rules on your company's network.
Now take the laptop home and try sending mail. Either you get an error message, or the mail simply vanishes. Comcast drops it because it was addressed to port 25 but not to Comcast's SMTP server.
The usual fix is simple but may not work for all servers. In Outlook Express's "Outgoing Mail Server" panel, replace the default 25 with 587. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2476.txtRFC 2476http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2476.txt explains why this works for newer SMTP servers. (For sbcglobal.net, the fix is to change port to 26.)
Alternatively, your ISP might agree to unblock port 25 for you on request.
SBC Yahoo customers can also look at "Why am I unable to send email..." on the SBC site for more solutions.
 
Yeh, lol, I posted that late last night. I'll have to play with it when I get home....put up with it for about a year but now its really irritating me lol. I'll have to check later, can't remember exactly the error message, it was like it would get stuck on the "send" part and keep trying to send but flash back an error message saying it cannot me completed.

Thanks guys I'll check later.
 
If your isp is blocking smtp and ONLY allowing their smtp server, then use theirs.

In outlook (dunno about outlook express, but I imaging you can do it as well), you can set the "from" to read your buisness email address so that when they reply, it will go to your business acct.

My ISP blocks smtp as well to prevent spam.
So I can only use their isp.
 
two words

Mozilla Thunderbird.

As good as outlook in the office suite, completely free and more secure, and doesnt have the reply to all button right next to the reply button...
ryan
 
dengood1 said:
here ya go boss;)

ISPs blocking port 25

In an effort to stop spam, many ISPs (Comcast, Cox, many others) block all traffic to port 25 on anything except their own SMTP servers. This plays out like this:
Say you configure your laptop's "Outgoing Mail Server" to use smtp.mycompany.com port 25. When you test sending e-mail, it works, because you're not subject to Comcast rules on your company's network.
Now take the laptop home and try sending mail. Either you get an error message, or the mail simply vanishes. Comcast drops it because it was addressed to port 25 but not to Comcast's SMTP server.
The usual fix is simple but may not work for all servers. In Outlook Express's "Outgoing Mail Server" panel, replace the default 25 with 587. RFC 2476 explains why this works for newer SMTP servers. (For sbcglobal.net, the fix is to change port to 26.)
Alternatively, your ISP might agree to unblock port 25 for you on request.
SBC Yahoo customers can also look at "Why am I unable to send email..." on the SBC site for more solutions.
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It worked :righton::righton:, what the heck does that "25" do that keeps outgoing mail from sending???
 
not sure, but if you have a moment....

read me:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2476.txt

Some ISPs do this so that you are forced to use their email servers when sending email, as an attempt to prevent spam. Some ISPs that have been known to block port 25 are MindSpring, Earthlink, and AT&T.


The force is STRONG with Google:D
 
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I've never head of using port 587. My ISP often bounces emails to Yahoo accounts. Not consistently, but often enough to be very annoying. I changed my outgoing port to 587 and so far mail is sending and receiving just fine.

Thanks for the tip!
 
Oh how nice it is to send email from my business account at home now LOL.
 
Surfer said:
Oh how nice it is to send email from my business account at home now LOL.
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I just googled it to get the answer for you. I know a little about computers, but that was above my knowledge. Glad it worked for you:cheers:
 
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