• Subject: Re: Sending email failure - away from home
  • Author: Ed Gomez
  • Date: 28 Aug 2008
  • References: 1 2 3
I've double checked with Charter support and they insist Microsoft Outlook
should work with their outgoing server (smtp.charter.net) and that Microsoft
may have to configure something to make sure that works (the incoming server
is (pop.charter.net). Make sense ? or not ?

"neo [mvp outlook]" wrote:

> It does and what they are not telling you is that you have to be on their
> network and not someone elses in order to send main. (means no sitting in a
> Disney hotel, Starbucks wi-fi hotspot, AOL, .etc and hoping to use Charter's
> SMTP server of smtp.charter.net as your outbound mail server in mail
> client.)
>
> More or less, they are saying that if you are traveling, you need to use
> their web access for mail.
>
> Have you thought about getting a free e-mail account at Gmail or some other
> place so that you can use them as your SMTP server when traveling?
>
> "Ed Gomez" <EdGomez@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:826DE605-3BA1-43C2-95A9-4F30B816BC21@microsoft.com...
> > As I mentioned, my ISP is Charter and they said I should be able to
> > send email via Outlook (as far as they are concerned). For your reference
> > the error get is "Task edgomez@charter.net" - sending reported error
> > (0x800CCC67): The server responded: 421 charter.net connection refused
> > from
> > (207.189.196.214). I hope this helps .. Thank you.
> >
> > "neo [mvp outlook]" wrote:
> >
> >> Who is your ISP and do they support an alternative means of sending mail
> >> when you connect to someone else's network?
> >>
> >> "Ed Gomez" <EdGomez@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:9F419396-A0BB-4B59-AFFF-BE133B707CF2@microsoft.com...
> >> > Using Microsoft Outlook, I can't send email when I'm away from
> >> > home. It appears that a setting isn't set correctly re: the outgoing
> >> > mail server. I'm receiving email without a problem. Can you help ?
> >> > Thank you.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
27 Aug 2008Sending email failure - away from home.Ed Gomez
27 Aug 2008|- Re: Sending email failure - away from home.neo [mvp outlook]
27 Aug 2008|  |- Re: Sending email failure - away from home.Ed Gomez
27 Aug 2008|  \ Re: Sending email failure - away from home.Ed Gomez
27 Aug 2008|     \ Re: Sending email failure - away from home.Diane Poremsky [MVP]
28 Aug 2008|        \ Re: Sending email failure - away from home.Ed Gomez
28 Aug 2008\ RE: Sending email failure - away from home.JSB
29 Aug 2008   \ RE: Sending email failure - away from home.Ed Gomez
29 Aug 2008      \ Re: Sending email failure - away from home.Rich/rerat
29 Aug 2008         \ Re: Sending email failure - away from home.Ed Gomez
29 Aug 2008            \ Re: Sending email failure - away from home.Willie E.
31 Aug 2008               |- Re: Sending email failure - away from home.HAROLD
31 Aug 2008               \ Re: Sending email failure - away from home.HAROLD
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