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How to Make an AOL Outlook 2010 Connection

Are you ready to make an AOL Outlook 2010 connection? There was a time when AOL mail was a proprietary system, part of the America Online empire. It was hard to work with for Outlook users like us, and of course you had to be a paying AOL member to even use the system.

Note: If you are looking to connect Outlook 2007 to your AOL mail, then you should go to this AOL Outlook 2007 connection page.

But all that has changed. AOL mail is now a free service that uses the POP3 and IMAP protocols which are standard in the industry. Even better, Outlook 2010 knows how to configure an AOL Outlook connection using the IMAP protocol automatically. All this makes AOL mail a very viable service to use with Outlook.

There’s just one small hitch.

But no worries. This may not even hit you, and if it does, the problem is easy to resolve. I’ve included detailed instructions for doing exactly that below the AOL mail Outlook connection instructions for anyone who gets bit by this (like I did).

So let’s get your new connection set up, shall we?.

On this page, I’ll walk you through the process of configuring an IMAP (link opens in new window) AOL Outlook 2010 mail connection. Because we will be setting up an IMAP connection, you’ll be able to use either Outlook or your web browser with your AOL mail account. The changes you make are automatically synchronized between each.

So with a few moments work you’ll be able to centralize all your email handling in Outlook, yet still be able to use the AOL mail web interface whenever you want. That will surely save some time and hassles.

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Making an AOL Outlook 2010 Connection

Let’s get started. This will only take a few minutes.

NOTE: These instructions assume you already have an AOL Mail account set up. If not, you need to sign up for one first (remember, AOL mail is now free). The following link opens a new window and takes you to the AOL mail home page so you can sign up for an account. Once there, click the Mail link and follow the instructions for setting up an account. When you finish, close that window to come back here.

1. In Outlook 2010, click the File tab on the Ribbon. In the “File” menu that appears, click Info to display the “Account Information” screen shown below.

2. Click Add Account to open the “Add New Account” page of the “Auto Account Setup” wizard.

3. Select the E-Mail Account option, then enter your account information (the Name you want to use with AOL mail, your full AOL email address and password) on this screen, then click Next. This tells Outlook 2010 to try to configure itself automatically. This will probably take several minutes, during which time the screen may look something like the one below.

4. Once the wizard establishes a successful AOL to Outlook 2010 connection, it displays the congratulations screen shown below.

With the new account set up, Outlook includes a new folder in the Navigation Pane that corresponds to your GMX mailbox folders. That’s all there is to setting up an AOL Outlook connection using the automatic setup process.

Unless of course, you get a message stating that you can’t send email!

What to Do if Your New AOL Outlook 2010 Connection Won’t Send Mail

As an additional security measure, AOL may require you to complete a simple security step to prove that you are a human being and not some spam-spewing robot. This confused me at first, because I was setting up the connection through a small ISP in South America, and I assumed that it was one of those “can’t send email from this location” kind of problems. A little research showed that this is something much easier to fix.

If you get hit with the can’t send mail message after setting up your connection, you need to go to http://challenge.aol.com/spam.html and type in the words you see on the screen. Doing so correctly tells AOL that you are a person, and activates your ability to send mail using your AOL account.

Once I completed this step, my AOL mail Outlook 2010 connection started functioning perfectly, and yours should too.

Now that you have a working AOL Outlook connection, do you have other webmail accounts (Yahoo Mail or Gmail perhaps?) you want to get connected to Outlook too? If so, you’ll find directions for doing so on this Outlook 2010 Email Accounts page.

If you would like to tell Outlook to open to the folder you just created with this AOL Outlook connection, rather than the default Outlook Inbox, visit this Startup Folder page.

From here you can:

Go to the main Outlook 2010 email accounts page.

Go to the Outlook 2010 home page.

Return to the top of this AOL Outlook 2010 page.

Go to the instructions for making an AOL Outlook 2007 connection.

Gmail with Outlook – Making the Gmail Outlook Connection

Author: Bill Mann

Would you like to connect Outlook to a Web-based email account? If so, there are lots of options. Many huge companies, like Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Google offer free web-based email accounts, as do hundreds of smaller companies.

But not all free accounts will work well with Outlook. That’s why the top choice for most people is to connect Google’s Gmail with Outlook. Once you have a Gmail account, it only takes a few minutes to configure the Gmail Outlook connection.

This allows you to use Outlook to read messages sent to your Gmail account. It also allows you to send messages from Outlook that use your Gmail address.

Why use Gmail? Well, there are lots of other popular free email services out there, like Yahoo! Mail & Hotmail. But connecting them to Outlook for free is the rub. Some Web-based email accounts are set up so you can view them using your Web browser, but they don’t allow you to connect to them with programs like Outlook.

Yahoo allows you to connect to Outlook, but they in effect charge you a fee for the privilege. With those services, the free versions of the email account need to be upgraded to a paying version to enable the connection.

Among the vast number of free email services out there, only a small number let you connect Outlook for free. Google’s Gmail is the biggest and best-known of this elite group.

With Gmail, you get a massive amount of space (measured in Gb) of mail storage right on Google’s servers. Gmail also provides powerful search capabilities when you search your mail through the web interface (basically doing a Google search on your own email).

Google supports the Gmail service with advertising, but you only see the ads when you use your Gmail account with your web browser, not when you use Gmail with Outlook. If you haven’t yet chosen an email service, or if you are already a Gmail user, making the Gmail Outlook connection is the obvious way to go.

The directions for making the Gmail Outlook connection are relatively long, but in my experience, virtually anyone can make the connection with the help of some quality instructions.

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Yahoo Mail and Outlook

Author: Bill Mann

Do you need to get your Yahoo Mail account working with Outlook so you can handle all your email in one place? This is definitely a smart thing to do, something that will simplify your life. This article will show you how to make the Yahoo Outlook connection.

There’s one big thing that trips people up when they first try to get Yahoo Mail and Outlook working together. You can only make a Yahoo mail and Outlook connection if you have a premium Yahoo Mail account. That means, you must use either:

• A Yahoo Mail Plus account ($19.99 per year)
• A Yahoo Business Email account ($9.95 per month)

Yahoo blocks connections from their free email accounts to any mail reader besides their web-based one. Happily, it’s easy to get a Mail Plus account, or even better, to convert your existing free Yahoo account to a Mail Plus account. That allows you to keep the same email address you are already using.

Most people will want to go with the Yahoo Mail Plus account, but the process for using that or a Yahoo Business Mail account with Outlook is almost the same. In either case, there is something to be aware of before you go further.

Normally, when you set up a Yahoo Outlook connection, you will want to tell the Yahoo mail servers not to retain copies of messages on the server once Outlook downloads them. That means you won’t be able to read your mail through the Yahoo web interface anymore. That’s a definite disadvantage, but almost always the way to go.

Why? Because if you don’t do things that way, you’ll have your mail on Outlook, and have a separate copy in Yahoo which you’ll have to take care of. Two separate copies of the same message means extra work for you.

Because there are a number of steps to making this work, and the details vary depending on the version of Outlook you’re using (and the details sometimes change), you’ll want to go online to find a reliable set of instructions. Ideally, those instructions will take you through every step of the process, from converting your Yahoo account into a Mail Plus account, to the exact steps you must take for whichever version of Outlook you are using.

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Imagine how much easier your life will be when you can handle your Yahoo mail and Outlook mail in one place!

For complete instructions on making the Yahoo Outlook connection (for Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, and Outlook 2010), including the steps for upgrading your existing Yahoo Mail account to a Yahoo Mail Plus account that will work with Outlook mail, visit: THIS PAGE.

UPDATE: Microsoft has released Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0.6106.5001 (I’ll explain in a minute). Follow the procedure on this page to install this version of the connector, or to upgrade from an earlier version.

IMPORTANT: If you use the Outlook Hotmail Connector to sync your Outlook calendar with your Hotmail calendar, DO NOT INSTALL THIS! There are reports that the new version of the connector breaks the synchronization with the Hotmail Calendar. For a write-up about the situation, including a link to the complete discussion in the Microsoft forums, visit: http://www.ghacks.net/2011/07/10/microsoft-outlook-connector-update-breaks-hotmail-sync/

What, you ask, is the Outlook Hotmail Connector? Seeing as both Outlook 2010 and Hotmail are Microsoft products, it would only make sense that you should be able to set up a Hotmail Outlook 2010 connection, which would use Outlook to read your Hotmail. And you can. The secret is the Outlook Hotmail Connector. This Hotmail connector is an Outlook add-in that goes far beyond a simple POP3 connection to:

• Read and Send Hotmail messages




• Manage your Hotmail contacts




• Block junk email messages




• Sync your safe and blocked lists between Hotmail & Outlook




• Manage and synchronize Windows Live Calendar (and other calendars) from Outlook




• Apply Outlook Rules to the Hotmail account, even if it isn’t your primary account




• View your Hotmail account status in the Outlook status bar

The 14.0.6106.5001 release that came out on July 7, 2011 fixes a number of stability and reliability problems. Of particular note is a switch to using the HTTPS protocol for communication between Outlook and Hotmail. That’s the same protocol that is probably used by your online banking account, and means better security for your messages.

Now about that version number…

According to Microsoft, there was some confusion among users because people (including Microsoft) referred to earlier versions of the Outlook Hotmail Connector as 14.0, 14.1, 14.2 and so on, while if you checked the version number in the software, you would find some ugly thing like 14.0.6106.5001.

To make our lives simpler, someone decided to get rid of one of the version numbers. Unfortunately, it was the human-friendly one, so from now on, we’re gonna have to deal with the 11-digit version numbers instead of the 3-digit ones.

Making the Hotmail Outlook 2010 Connection with the Outlook Hotmail Connector

Setting this up is pretty easy. The one thing to watch out for is that you need to be sure to install the correct version of the Outlook Hotmail Connector. There’s one version for the 32-bit version of Outlook 2010, and another for the 64-bit version.

How do you know whether you have the 32-bit or the 64-bit version? In Outlook, click the File tab on the ribbon, then click Help. In the right-hand pane, you will find information about your copy of Outlook. This includes a version number. At the end of the version number, in parentheses, you can see whether you have the 32-bit version or the 64-bit version.

The Procedure

With that out of the way, let’s get started installing the Outlook Hotmail Connector:

1. If you have the 32-bit version of Outlook 2010, click HERE. If you have the 64-bit version, click HERE. This takes you to the right spot in the Microsoft Download Center.





2. Click the Download button that appears on this page. The Opening OutlookConnector.exe box appears.




3. Click the Save File button. This begins the download.




4. Locate the OutlookConnector.exe file on your hard drive and double-click it to launch it.





5. Follow the instructions that appear on the screen to install the Outlook Hotmail Connector.

Downloading and installing the connector will only take a few minutes. Once you are done, you will need to restart Outlook 2010 to allow the connector to work properly.

Working with the Outlook Hotmail Connector

Once you restart Outlook, you should see a box asking if you want to add a Hotmail account to Outlook. Follow these instructions to do so:

1. Click Yes to begin.





2. In the Windows Live Hotmail Settings box that appears, fill out the appropriate information for the Hotmail account you wish to add (you must have a Hotmail account set up before you can do this step). Make sure that “Remember password” is checked if you don’t want to have to type it in every time Outlook check the account.




3. Click OK to continue setting up the account. It may take Outlook a few minutes to do this. During this time, a new folder will appear in the Navigation Pane of the Mail view. This is the folder that corresponds to your Hotmail account.

From now on, Outlook will sync with your Hotmail account. This means that changes you make to your account through your web browser (say reading a new message, or deleting a piece of junk mail) will be reflected in Outlook, and vice versa. You can test this yourself by logging into your Hotmail account using your web browser and making some change. Within a few moments the change will appear in Outlook.

Now that you have the Outlook Hotmail Connector set up, you can learn more about using Outlook with other web-based email accounts by visiting this Outlook Email Accounts page.

This page provides the information you need to make a NetZero Outlook 2010 connection. This connection will let you work with your email in Outlook 2010, instead of the usual NetZero email interface, bringing all the power and personal information management tools of Outlook to your NetZero webmail. The procedure on this page applies to Outlook 2010, and walks you through the whole process step-by-step.

NOTE: If you are using Outlook 2007, you should follow the link at the end of this post for instructions that cover that version.

You can only make the NetZero Outlook connection if you have a premium NetZero email account. In other words, you must be using either a:

A NetZero Platinum account (low as $6.95/month)

A NetZero HiSpeed account (discounted to $9.95 per month)

If you don’t have one of these account types, you cannot connect NetZero and Outlook. But don’t worry. This is easy to fix. And the benefits of a NetZero Outlook 2010 connection make it worthwhile to do so.

Convert Your Old NetZero Account to NetZero Platinum to Enable the NetZero Outlook 2010 Connection

You are surely aware of the real benefits you’ll get from making NetZero mail and Outlook 2010 work together (or you wouldn’t be on this page), but let’s summarize them quickly.

• You save time and effort by working with all of your messages in one place.
• You can use Outlook’s mail handling tools like flags and folders and Contact Groups (Outlook 2010′s new and improved form of mailing lists) on your NetZero messages.
• You can easily use Outlook’s Calendar, Tasks, Notes and other Personal Information Management (PIM) tools on the contents of your NetZero messages.

In short, you will get some major benefits from making this connection, so let’s get it set up right now.

THIS LINK opens a new window that walks you through the upgrade process. Be sure to return to this page once you have upgraded your account so we can configure a NetZero Outlook 2010 connection to work with it.

Whichever type of account you choose, the steps needed to make the NetZero Outlook 2010 connection are almost the same. The following section walks you through the process:

NOTE: As part of the process for setting up a NetZero Outlook 2010 connection, you will tell the NetZero mail servers not to keep copies of messages on the server once you view them with Outlook. This means they will not be visible from the Web once you read them with Outlook. This is most likely the way you want things to work anyway (having multiple versions of a message floating around is a recipe for confusion), but is something to be aware of.

Configure Your NetZero Outlook 2010 Connection

We are going to set up our NetZero Outlook 2010 connection manually to be sure we get everything exactly the way we want it. The procedure is similar, but not identical to configuring earlier versions of Outlook. Please follow these steps to get Outlook configured:

1. In the Outlook main window, click the File tab on the ribbon, then Information, then Add Account. This opens the Auto Account Setup screen.
2. Set the Manually configure server settings or additional server types checkbox and click Next to go to the Choose Service screen.





3. Select Internet E-mail, then click Next to go to the Internet E-mail Settings screen.





4. Enter your name as you want it to appear in messages in the Your Name field.
5. Enter your full NetZero email address (yourid@netzero.com) in the E-mail Address field.
6. Select POP3 in the Account Type list.
7. For a Mail Plus account, enter plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com in the Incoming mail server (POP3) field and plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com in the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) field.
8. Enter pop.netzero.com in the Incoming mail server (POP3) field and authsmtp.netzero.com in the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) field.
9. Enter your NetZero email address in the User Name field.
10. Enter your NetZero email password in the Password field.
11. Set the Remember password checkbox if you don’t want to have to enter your password manually each time Outlook checks your mail.
12. Make sure that the checkbox next to Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA) is CLEARED.
13. Under the “Deliver new messages to” heading, select New Outlook Data File to store your NetZero messages in their own set of folders. The messages will appear in the Inbox just like all the rest of your Outlook mail, but won’t be stored with your other (corporate?) messages on the server.





14. Click More Settings to open the Internet E-mail Settings dialog box.
15. Click the Outgoing Server tab.





16. Clear the My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication checkbox.
17. Click the Advanced tab.





18. Set Incoming server (POP3) to 110.
19. Set Outgoing server (SMTP) to 587.
20. Make sure that the Leave a copy of messages on the server checkbox is CLEARED.
21. Make sure that the This server requires a secure connection (SSL) checkbox is CLEARED under both Incoming server (POP3) and Outgoing server (SMTP).
22. Click OK to return to the Internet E-mail Settings screen.
23. Click Test Account Settings. The Test Account Settings dialog box appears and Outlook sends a test message using the settings you have just entered. If the test was successful, a Congratulations! message appears in the dialog box. Your NetZero Outlook 2010 connection is set up properly. Click Close to close this dialog box. If you didn’t see the Congratulations! message, go back through this procedure from the top to check all your settings.
24. Click Next, then Finish.

Now you’re ready to go. You should have a functional NetZero Outlook 2010 connection, and Outlook should start downloading mail from your NetZero mail account.

From here you can:

Go to the main Outlook 2010 email accounts page.

Go to the Outlook 2010 home page.

Return to the top of this NetZero Outlook 2010 page.

Go to the instructions for making a NetZero Outlook 2007 connection.

How to Work with Your All Accounts Group

Sometimes you will find that one of your email accounts doesn’t send and receive automatically like your other accounts do. That can happen when, for whatever reason, an account doesn’t end up being included in your All Accounts Group. The All Accounts Group is the default group in Outlook’s Send/Receive Groups.

Or you might find that none of your accounts sends or receives automatically. This could be because they aren’t included in the All Accounts Group, or because that group isn’t set up to send and receive automatically.

In other words, getting the All Accounts Group working right is the key to benefiting from Outlook’s Send/Receive Groups.

As the name implies, Send/Receive Groups are a way to group together email accounts for the purpose of sending and receiving messages. Outlook gives you lots of flexibility in how and when it checks for messages and sends messages, and the Send/Receive Groups are how the program keeps track of which accounts are supposed to do what.

Happily for us, most of the time, all we need is the default All Accounts Group, which should contain all your email accounts and should automatically send and receive on all those accounts at the same time. On this page, we’re going to talk about how you see what’s in your All Accounts Group, and how we can add new accounts to the group.

Look at Your All Accounts Group

Let’s start by looking at what’s in your All Accounts Group. To see the group, follow these steps:

1. In Outlook 2010 Mail View, click the Send/Receive tab on the ribbon. This displays the Send/Receive commands.
2. In the Send & Receive section of the ribbon, click Send/Receive Groups. This opens a menu.
3. Click the Define Send/Receive Groups option in the menu. This opens the Send/Receive Groups dialog box.


Take a good look at this dialog box. We’ll come back to the “Settings for group” section of the box in a bit. First, let’s be sure that the accounts we want to include in the All Accounts Group are actually there.

4. Select All Accounts in the Group Name box if it isn’t already selected, then click the Edit button. This opens the Send/Receive Settings dialog box for the All Accounts Group.



5. You can see that my email account is visible as a big button in the Accounts section on the left side of the dialog box. You can also see that the “Include the selected account in this group” option is not selected. Click the account button on the left, and set Include the selected account in this group option to add the account to the All Accounts Group.
6. Look at the rest of the options in this box. The exact ones you see vary with the type of email account you have selected in the Accounts section. Unless you have instructions from somewhere that tell you otherwise, leave these settings alone. If you have additional accounts you need to add to the All Account Group, do so now. When you are done, click the OK button at the bottom of the dialog box. This takes you back to the Send/Receive Groups dialog box.
7. Now take a look at the Settings for group “All Accounts” section at the bottom of the dialog box. Make sure that the “Schedule an automatic send/receive every ___ minutes” option is selected and that you are happy with the number of minutes shown here. This tells Outlook to automatically send and receive messages for every account included in the All Accounts Group. You can also adjust other settings here, but I suggest you leave everything else as is for now.
8. Click Close to return to the main Outlook 2010 window. Outlook should start automatically sending and receiving messages on all the accounts in the All Accounts Group using the time interval you specified.

You are now done adding accounts to the All Accounts Group and ensuring that messages automatically get sent and received for those accounts.

Can’t send email in certain locations? Here’s the ultimate solution:

What to do if you suddenly can’t send email from certain locations

This is the place to be if your email works fine in certain locations, but you can’t send email from certain other locations. By far the most likely reason for this is that your email provider won’t allow you to connect to their SMTP servers if your computer isn’t directly connected to their network. If your provider is one of these, as long as your computer is directly connected to the cable modem, or is connected to a wireless network connected to the cable modem, all is well.

But try to connect from some other physical location, or by connecting to someone else’s wireless network, and these email providers won’t let your computer connect to their outgoing (SMTP) mail servers anymore. The result: you can receive, but you can’t send email. In reality, this isn’t so much a situation where you can’t send email from certain locations as it is that you can only send email from certain locations.

The heck with semantics. I can’t send email when I need to! How do I fix it?

You can thank all the creeps who flood your email inbox with sex aid ads, herbal weight loss scams, malware, and all their other crap for this problem. In order to prevent the cretins from using their networks as a way to distribute this junk, many email providers have already, or are in the process of, beefed up the security of their networks.

It’s definitely the right thing to do as it slows the junk mail plague, but the changes they have to make to do this need to be reflected in your Outlook 2010 configuration. If they aren’t, you find yourself with a can’t send email problem.

Here’s what I recommend. First, try sending again, just in case there was some sort of temporary glitch that’s healed itself. If that doesn’t work, and you still can’t send email, I suggest you go to the Living With Outlook 2010 Email Accounts home page and see if I have posted instructions for your email service there. I do my best to ensure that the instructions you find there are up to date, and will work from anywhere if your email provider makes it possible.

If you find your service, walk through the instructions and see if they differ from the settings you are using now. If so, updating your Outlook 2010 settings could be all it takes to fix the problem.

If that doesn’t work, or you can’t find your email provider listed, try going to the tech support page on their website and see if they have posted instructions for connecting to their service remotely. And if this happens, please post a message below so I can be sure to keep this site up to date. Thanks!

I tried all this but I still can’t send email!

Hopefully you will never get to this section, because it means none of the advice above helped and you still can’t send email. But if you do get here, there’s one last thing you can try. If you can’t send mail using the advice above, you can try using someone else’s SMTP server to send it.

When you sign up with an SMTP service provider, they give you access to servers that live out on the Internet and can be connected to from anywhere the Internet reaches. They let you bypass the blocks your email provider puts on outgoing mail by not using the email provider’s SMTP servers. This is perfectly legitimate, legal, and transparent to anyone who receives messages sent this way. It is a great solution to an incredibly frustrating problem.

Unfortunately, the same problems that have caused email providers to clamp down on security have reduced the number of available SMTP servers that aren’t part of someone’s email service. One solid company that’s still providing an independent SMTP service is SMTP2Go. They provide a very affordable service, and even ofter a free trial, so you can see if their solution will work for you before making any commitments. I urge you to check them out.

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Can’t send email anymore? Here’s the ultimate solution:

What to do if you suddenly can’t send email on an account anymore

Assuming you haven’t been fiddling with Outlook 2010′s email account settings, there are 2 likely causes for this problem. The possibilities are:

• Your email provider has changed settings to enhance security.
• You are working on this in a different location, one that isn’t directly connected to your email provider’s network.

Let’s touch on the second possibility first. Some email providers, such as cable companies, won’t allow you to connect to their SMTP servers if your computer isn’t directly connected to their network. If your provider is one of these, as long as your computer is directly connected to the cable modem, or is connected to a wireless network connected to the cable modem, all is well.

But try to connect from some other physical location, or by connecting to someone else’s wireless network, and these email providers won’t let your computer connect to their outgoing (SMTP) mail servers anymore. The result: you can receive, but you can’t send email. If this describes your situation, please click over to the Can’t Send Email In Certain Locations page, where I’ll show you how to deal with this.

I can’t send email anymore even though my computer is connected to the right network.

You can thank all the creeps who flood your email inbox with sex aid ads, herbal weight loss scams, malware, and all their other crap for this problem. In order to prevent the cretins from using their networks as a way to distribute this junk, many email providers have already, or are in the process of, beefed up the security of their networks.

It’s definitely the right thing to do as it slows the junk mail plague, but the changes they have to make to do this need to be reflected in your Outlook 2010 configuration. If they aren’t, you find yourself with a can’t send email problem.

Here’s what I recommend. First, try sending again, just in case there was some sort of temporary glitch that’s healed itself. If that doesn’t work, and you still can’t send email, I suggest you go to the Living With Outlook 2010 Email Accounts home page and see if I have posted instructions for your email service there. I do my best to ensure that the instructions you find there are up to date, so if there has been a change in settings for your email provider, I probably have it documented here.

If you find your service, walk through the instructions and see if they differ from the settings you are using now. If so, updating your Outlook 2010 settings could be all it takes to fix the problem.

If that doesn’t work, or you can’t find your email provider listed, try going to the tech support page on their website and see if they have posted new instructions. And if this happens, please post a message below so I can be sure to keep this site up to date. Thanks!

I tried all this but I still can’t send email!

Hopefully you will never get to this section, because it means none of the advice above helped and you still can’t send email. But if you do get here, there’s one last thing you can try. If you can’t send mail using the advice above, you can try using someone else’s SMTP server to send it.

Unfortunately, the same problems that have caused email providers to clamp down on security have reduced the number of available SMTP servers that aren’t part of someone’s email service. One solid company that’s still providing an independent SMTP service is SMTP2Go. They provide a very affordable service, and even ofter a free trial, so you can see if their solution will work for you before making any commitments. Check them out by clicking the image below.

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“Did you change your outgoing SMTP server settings?,” he asked me. I had no idea how to answer. I mean, what in the world is an SMTP server (outgoing or otherwise), and why would I need to change it’s settings? I soon learned that it was actually a sensible question, and that I did indeed need to change those settings. Want to hear my story?

What the heck is an outgoing SMTP server?

I got that strange-sounding question from a tech at work, when I was explaining that I could receive email on the road, but not send any. He explained to me that the outgoing SMTP server is what takes the outgoing messages that I send from Outlook, and passes them on to their destinations.

It turns out that companies are changing the way they set up their SMTP servers to protect against outsiders using the company’s email system to send their junk mail or viruses. That’s all pretty cool, but if your email program is set up to use the default settings, you are probably going to have a problem when you are not connected directly to the local network. This was my problem, and once I changed the SMTP settings, my sending problems were solved.

All that is my clumsy way of saying that if you can receive email when you are away, but not send it, you probably have to change the outgoing SMTP server settings to match the security setup of the company that handles your email. You don’t really have to understand how it all works (I don’t) but I hope you now least now have a better idea of questions to ask whoever you go to with your email questions.

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