E-mail Settings?????

[The Doctor]

I am in Mexico on their wireless server and, although I can receive my e-mail just fine, I'm not sending successfully. Everything seems to work well everywhere else I have been but I'm not getting my mail out now. Are there different settings I should use?????? Thanks for any help!
Stuck in Mexico

[The Doctor]

Thanks for the color correction early out, care to offer any actual help?

[The Doctor]

"Outlook is unable to connect to your outgoing SMTP server" is the message I'm getting. I don't get this message at home. What might be the needed setting change?

[MrDelish]

What do you have set up as your SMTP server? If mail.domain.com, it really shouldn't make a difference where you are, though the local ISP may have something blocked. Make sure you try both port 25 and 26 (restart Outlook and clear the outbox between your attempts) and also try using webmail in the meantime by going to http://domain.com/webmail

[The Doctor]

Changes it to 26. Still no Workie????

[JND]

Try webmail as suggested to verify that you can send mail.

[Early Out]

Thanks for the color correction early out, care to offer any actual help?
I'm a moderator, not The Answer Man.

Posters who try to attract attention to their posts by using colors, all-caps, large fonts, etc., will have their posts edited. Your question is no more important than anyone else's.

[The Doctor]

Thanks Mr. Delish,
Changing to 26 seems to help with mail within my own domains but outside mail receives this message:

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: RE: GMP
Sent: 8/19/2009 3:01 PM

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

'Nace Financial' on 8/19/2009 3:01 PM
503 Valid RCPT command must precede DATA

[Early Out]

I've run into this somewhere along the line, where a Wi-Fi site was set up to prevent SMTP connections. In that case, I recall trying different ports, SSL, no SSL, etc. (not using BH, but an ISP who allowed port 25, port 587, port 465 w/SSL, and so on). But the wireless router was rigged to block every such attempt. Fine for web browsing, but nothing else. I never did crack it.

[The Doctor]

I'm a moderator, not The Answer Man.

Posters who try to attract attention to their posts by using colors, all-caps, large fonts, etc., will have their posts edited. Your question is no more important than anyone else's.

Check my post count there supermod. You'll see it was my first post. I have however, posted thousands of messages on other forums. I have always used red font when doing so. It's simply a preference. The feature exists and I was unaware of it's offense. If I crossed some moderator's line somewhere, I apologize.

[The Doctor]

I am receiving my mail perfectly. It's simply connecting to the outgoing server that is the problem?

[Early Out]

I am receiving my mail perfectly. It's simply connecting to the outgoing server that is the problem?
Yup, same symptom I saw. Ports 110 and 995 were fine, so incoming POP stuff was no problem. I just couldn't send.

[MrDelish]

That error usually happens when you don't have SMTP authentication enabled (usually under More Settings -> Outgoing Server in Outlook). Make sure that box is checked, clear the outbox, restart Outlook, then try again.

[The Doctor]

Proper boxes now checked and some outgoing mail is successful albiet some is still failing. Go figure?

[MrDelish]

Yep, not sure on that one. If one goes out the others should as well, based on the errors you shared. You did clear out the messages in the outbox, right? Sometimes messages still try to go out with the old settings or summat.

[Early Out]

By the way, clearing "stuck" messages in the outbox can be a pain, but there's a simple trick. Disconnect your PC from the outside world. Launch Outlook, and let it fail when it tries to send the messages from the outbox. Then open the outbox and delete the problem message(s). Close Outlook, reconnect, and launch again.

[The Doctor]

Thanks guys!!!! Most everything is working!

[The Doctor]

OK, I thought it was working but now, 50% of my e-mails are still failing. Here's the message I'm getting now:

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: RE: 11 Year Old Scouts - August 26th Meeting
Sent: 8/23/2009 10:17 AM

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

'Art Reategui' on 8/23/2009 10:17 AM
503 Valid RCPT command must precede DATA

I suspect this is an easy fix but, for the life of me, I can't figure it out alone?

[sleepless]

It sounds like you are trying to send messages to large groups of reciepients at once. If this is the case you are probably getting timed out by the server limits.

Try sending fewer messages at a time or to fewer reciepients at a time. Or if you have a legitimate call for sending mass mail, you can request BH support to up the limit.

Based on the solutions already provided, the only other reason for failure to send only on some recipients and not others is due to blocking/filtering by the recipients ISP. And the answer to this problem is in these forums somewere.