There is some confusion as to whether AT&T's new settings apply to their BellSouth
customers. At least one BellSouth help page still recommends the old settings:
http://support.att.net/bellsouth/asp...2D0d48454ef01d
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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)
"Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I]" <hhh@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:Os9GkLOHJHA.456@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Wrong port number, should be 465 instead of 25. Please see the following to
> correct your settings:
>
> http://helpme.att.net/article.php?item=287
> POP, SMTP, NNTP: Email & News Server Settings
> http://helpme.att.net/article.php?item=10918
> AT&T Yahoo! Email Settings Change for POP and SMTP (e.g., Outlook/Outlook
> Express)
>
> Hal
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> "JeanneP" <JeanneP@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:01B79AF9-5AD1-437B-AD84-08F62EB770B1@xxxxxx Quote:
>>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.
>