Hi Corentin, Thanks for your advice before. Turned out it was a port issue. Now to remember that for next time!
joanne On 12/3/09 4:27 PM, "Corentin Cras-Méneur" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 3 Dec 2009, at 16:20, [email protected] wrote: > >> Corentin, >> > > Hi Joanne, > > >> Thanks for getting back to me (and for the welcome)! I didn't know about >> gmail and IMAP... I will keep that in mind for the future. I don't think it's >> SMTP set-up .... I put everything in the way I had it before when i was using >> Office 2004. > > It's *very* easy to make a mistake and the slightest error will prevent you > from sending. > Now it could also be that your ISP began blocking the SMTP port for outside > servers as I was mentioning. > >> I finally got a bunch of emails to go out the other day, but the problem >> started up again almost immediately. I keep getting an error saying that an >> operation on the server timed out, that it could be down, overloaded etc. But >> i am still receiving messages. > > Sending and receiving messages is done through different servers. You could be > fine receiving e-mails with an SMTP server completely down. > >> I would think (at least logically, to me) that server errors would not allow >> me to receive either -- any ideas? > > Yeah, not really actually. > >> It also says it's error -3259. The entourage site says this for that error >> number: >> Error -3259 >> >> No description...exchange error >> >> User, Jeremy Reichman reports that -3259 seems to be solved by actually >> making Global Catalog servers available for LDAP lookups. >> >> I don't know what LDAP lookups are or Global Catalog servers for that matter. > > It's for a very different issue with Exchange accounts. > > >> If anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate it! In the meantime, I am going to >> check with our host company and see if they can help me out. > > > This error message is typical of Firewall issues. It also sometimes affects > iTunes (it's a very generic networking error message). > You might need to change the SMTP port to avoid port 25. You'll need to > inquire to find out what other ports your server supports. > gMail uses port 587: > http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13286 > > If you setup the smtp as described on the gMail support page, can you send > e-mails through your gMail account? > > Corentin > > -- > YouTalk mailing list > List address: [email protected] > List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html > List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] > To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe -- YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
