OK - I feel foolish now. I have twin monitors, covered in windows for different things. Just tried your program again and noticed the tiny corner of a pop up window poking out from under another window. It was the firewall in my AV asking if I wanted to allow your program access to the internet! I didn't spot that before so I never said yes. Now I have you program works fine - obviously, as its the same mechanism doing the sending, its just my firewall recognised it as a different program running.
Sorry for the bother Howard > Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:15:00 +0100 > From: an...@magsys.co.uk > To: twsocket@lists.elists.org > Subject: Re: [twsocket] Help with sending mail through gmail please > > > one freshly built from the source code still gives Can Not Open > > Mail Server: <name of the mail server>:25 - 426 Timeout > > Can you please email the entire content of the progress window showing a > message being queued and sent, and the diag window (that may be hidden under > the form) if anything, that's only SMTP protocol. > > Angus > > -- > To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list > please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket > Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be