I tried to telnet to mail.bellsouth.net port 25, and can't connect.
So it appears to be a server problem, but you should call them to find out
if there is a problem or if they've changed something.
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"JeanneP" <JeanneP@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I see there have been other posts with this same heading, but I still
> haven't
> found a solution that works.
>
> I was using Outlook Express on my old computer and my husband was using
> Windows Mail on his computer. We had both been sending and receiving mail
> without problems. Then one day we went in to do emails and neither of us
> could send anything. None of the setting had changed. Last week I set up
> my
> new computer using Vista Windows Mail (same as his), double checked the
> ATT
> site just to make sure I had all the settings as thet require. We are
> still
> both receiving mail with no problem, but cannot send. Here is the error
> message we are receiving:
>
> "An unknown error has occurred. Subject 'test msg', Account:
> 'mail.bellsouth.net', Server: 'mail.bellsouth.net', Protocol: SMTP, Server
> Response: '421 Cannot connect to SMTP server 204.127.217.17
> (204.127.217.17:25), connect error 10060', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No,
> Server
> Error: 421, Error Number: 0x800CCC67"
>
> Any suggesstions would be appreciated. Just don't understand why it would
> be
> working one day and not the next when we did not change any of the
> settings.