• Subject: Re: outlook cannot connect to your outgoing (smtp) e-mail server
  • Author: Diane Poremsky [MVP]
  • Date: 09 Nov 2008
  • References: 1 2 3 4
Many ISP have the same practices. Speak to your providers tech support.
There is nothing to fix - they may have an alternate port you can use and
that is the only fix. Tech support can tell you if they offer an alternate
port.

Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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"Howie" <Howie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:18A3D1C9-376E-4799-9501-F8F0A8F57BAA@microsoft.com...
> Does Charter also come under this same criteria? If so how fara up will I
> have to escalate to get it fixed?
> Thanks in advance!
>
> "Mrmann" wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the help. I will try that and see where it leads.
>>
>> "benjaminlp" wrote:
>>
>> > On Jul 2, 4:51 pm, Mrmann <Mrm...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> > > I am getting error msg when I try to send email from outlook 2007. It
>> > > will
>> > > receive, but will not send outgoing email from my webmail.
>> > > Task 'TDB - Sending' reported error (0x80042109) : 'Outlook cannot
>> > > connect
>> > > to your outgoing (SMTP) e-mail server. If you continue to receive
>> > > this
>> > > message, contact your server administrator or Internet service
>> > > provider
>> > > (ISP).'
>> >
>> > Do you have comcast cable internet? If so, they (and probably other
>> > ISPs) block your outgoing mail port (typically 25) they recommend you
>> > switch it to 587 but that never works either. The only solution I
>> > have found is to use their SMTP server but that limits your relays per
>> > day. If you have Yahoo DSL (at&t SBC or whoever they are now) you can
>> > request them to unblock it. I beat my head against the wall for hours
>> > on this one until i figured out that they do this. It's wrong.
>> >
02 Jul 2008outlook cannot connect to your outgoing (smtp) e-mail server.Mrmann
02 Jul 2008|- Re: outlook cannot connect to your outgoing (smtp) e-mail server.benjaminlp
03 Jul 2008|  |- Re: outlook cannot connect to your outgoing (smtp) e-mail server.Mrmann
08 Nov 2008|  |  \ Re: outlook cannot connect to your outgoing (smtp) e-mail server.Howie
09 Nov 2008|  |     \ Re: outlook cannot connect to your outgoing (smtp) e-mail server.Diane Poremsky [MVP]
19 Nov 2008|  |        \ Re: outlook cannot connect to your outgoing (smtp) e-mail server.Howie
04 Jul 2008|  \ Re: outlook cannot connect to your outgoing (smtp) e-mail server.N. Miller
03 Aug 2008|     |- Re: outlook cannot connect to your outgoing (smtp) e-mail server.Becky
13 Nov 2008|     \ Re: outlook cannot connect to your outgoing (smtp) e-mail server.Mike M.
25 Nov 2008\ outlook is unable to connect to your outgoing (SMTP)e-mail server.rulark
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