jacquelyn commons said:
i hope this email goes out. i have vista on my laptop and i did everything
the prompts told me to set up my windows email and now i cant send or
receive emails. can someone please help me. i keep getting the same error
message when i try
And that error message would be..... ?
A frequent cause of inability to send mail from a laptop is that the laptop
is not connected to the network owned by the same people who run the
outgoing mail server. That is, if you have Verizon at home and they are
your mail provider, and have taken the PC to work or a hotel that doesn't
use Verizon, your mail isn't going to send.
This is because most, if not all, ISPs now block outgoing email that uses
Port 25, and they put their own server on that port. To get around this,
you have to use a 3rd party SMTP server, such as Gmail. These servers
don't use Port 25 and will usually allow you to connect anywhere.
HTH
-pk