If that's an accurate quoting of the error message, you need to remove the
spaces from the server name.
SMTP.orangehome.co.uk
<http://help.orange.co.uk/documentDisplay.do?clusterName=DefaultCluster&preview=1&groupId=1&page=&docType=1006&resultType=5002&docProp=$solution_id&docPropValue=kb79>
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"TLM" <terry@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> get the following error message each time i try to send emails from
> windows live mail . have checked all the settings and are as on all the
> help screens
> 'The connection to the server has failed . Subject test conection ' ,
> Account : ' orange ' , Server : ' SMTP . orangehome . co. uk ' , Protocol
> : SMTP , Port : 25 , Secure ( SSL ) : No , Socket Error : , Error Number :
> 0x800CCC0E'