I also have a bellsouth email account that AT&T took over and ever since
then, I seem to have problems sending emails out. I can receive emails fine,
but get errors whenever I try to send emails. I recently got a laptop with
Windows Vista home premium and was setting up my email account to use Windows
mail. I setup the incoming server and outgoing server to mail.bellsouth.net
as directed by AT&T technical help, but still get the below error. They said
I may have to contact microsoft help support. Can you help me? I think I
need to change the port number, but I don't know what to. I'm desperate!
I'd appreciate any help. Thanks.
"The connection to the server has failed. Subject 'Re: Testing', Account:
'mail.bellsouth.net', Server: 'mail.bellsouth.net', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25,
Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E"
"Gary VanderMolen" wrote:
Quote:
> If you would like some custom help, right-click on your error message,
> copy, then paste it into a reply here.
> We can't do much troubleshooting without that complete error message.
> There are subtle differences in error messages that require expert evaluation.
>
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> Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)
>
>
> "jamesd32940" <jamesd32940@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:3CB27287-BFF7-4C2F-ACD7-D9823C0D31C4@xxxxxx Quote:
> > Hey tarheelgirl:
> > did you ever resole the bellsouth prblem? I am getting the identical error
> > and cannot send out mail in windows mail... I am on bellsouth
> >
> > "tarheelgirl07" wrote:
> > Quote:
> >> I get the following error when trying to send email from Windows Mail:
> >>
> >> The connection to the server has failed. Subject 'test', Account:
> >> 'mail.bellsouth.net', Server: 'mail.bellsouth.net', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25,
> >> Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E
>