recieving mail fine - sending mail gets error

[largegroh]

ok. i am away from home and connected to my mom's wireless. i use vista home premium/windows mail. my home ip is comcast. while at my mom's i get all my incoming mail just fine off her wireless. when i try to send email however, i get this message:The connection to the server has failed. Subject 'football teams', Account: 'mail.comcast.net', Server: 'smtp.comcast.net', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0Eno email can be sent. i have tried everything ai can tghink of, except the suggestion i read here about changing the port from 25 to 5xx. i forget the number. i don't know how to do that. please help if possible. i will chleck back later.


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[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Contact Comcast Support or use your mother's ISP's SMTP server.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Use these Comcast mail settings:
http://www.comcast.com/Customers/FAQ/FaqDetails.ashx?Id=2288

Note that the outgoing server now requires port 587 rather than port 25.
Also, "My server requires authentication" must be checked.
Although those instructions were written for Outlook Express,
Windows Mail uses the same settings.

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[largegroh]

yes i have the authentication checked but i do not know2 where/lhow to change port 25 to 587. not sure where that is done. please explain. and thanks for help so far


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[Dave]

Tools - Accounts - (youraccount) - Properties - Advanced


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