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10-23-2008
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| | I can receive emails but I can't send emails When I try to send an email, I get the following: The connection to the server has failed. Subject 'Re: babysitter question', Account: 'mail.comcast.net', Server: 'smtp.comcast.net', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E |
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10-23-2008
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| | Re: I can receive emails but I can't send emails Try the super secret Comcast port 587 setting... that we post several times a day... follow the last steps... starting with 10. http://www.comcast.com/Customers/FAQ...s.ashx?Id=2288 -- Vista Home Premium 32 SP1 http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview http://download.live.com/wlmail "JB" <JB@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:B41402D1-32AC-4844-B2C0-A6FD6AB9C7FF@xxxxxx Quote: > When I try to send an email, I get the following: > > The connection to the server has failed. Subject 'Re: babysitter > question', > Account: 'mail.comcast.net', Server: 'smtp.comcast.net', Protocol: SMTP, > Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E |
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10-23-2008
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| | Re: I can receive emails but I can't send emails Comcast is trying to make users switch to a different port number, but has been rather poor at telling their users about this. See if this helps: http://help.comcast.net/content/faqt...e-6ebf83b77523 Windows Mail Click the link titled "How to configure Windows Mail for Vista to use port 587 for sending email" Hal -- Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- hhh@xxxxxx Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!" KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4 Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com "JB" <JB@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:B41402D1-32AC-4844-B2C0-A6FD6AB9C7FF@xxxxxx Quote: > When I try to send an email, I get the following: > > The connection to the server has failed. Subject 'Re: babysitter > question', > Account: 'mail.comcast.net', Server: 'smtp.comcast.net', Protocol: SMTP, > Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E |
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