Is your ISP blocking Port 25 for outside email accounts?

Most ISP's are blocking Port 25 for outgoing emails from outside email accounts in order to cut down on spam. I know that bellsouth.net is one of these ISP's. I cannot send from my account hosted by MediaTemple. As a solution, you can use your ISP's outgoing SMTP mail server to send.

The setup for Outlook 2003 looks something like the following...

For the Outgoing mail server (SMTP), use the address for your ISP.



Now click on More Settings. Click on the Outgoing Server tab. Select Log on using and enter your username and password.



Make sure that you test your new account settings to ensure that it works properly.

Done!

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