Re: Emails not sending

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Thank you for the info. I wasn't that clear on what my set up was. I had
looked at gmail's instructions briefly, but not in depth. I will follow
this. I really don't want to abandon Outlook. It sounds as though it
should work, but then again....


"Brian Tillman" <tillman1952@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Nate Rosenthal <ncrose@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here is my set up and has been for some time.

In outlook, I have my email account set up as a POP3 with my incoming
mail set up to come through an ISP that I have been working with for
years. The POP3 server is mail.vgernet.net It is working fine. All my
email is coming into Outlook. My outgoing server has been set
up through Comcast smtp.comcast.net Until Sunday that was fine. Now the
emails sit in the outbox. Comcast won't help me.

I may have misread your prior postings. I thought both your incoming and
outgoing were through Comast. Nonetheless, the important part of what I
said still applies. Create your gmail account and change the outgoing
server of your existing account to uise gmail's SMTP server.

Should I be leaving that part alone with comcast as the smtp or
changing it to gmail.

Leave the incoming alone. Change the outgoing to gmail.

Then I assume you are saying on the outgoing
server tab, I should enable authentication and put in my gmail user
name and password. Nothing in advanced??

I'm assumed you'd read gmail's instructions. Perhaps that assumption is
unwarranted. Yes, enable authentication and yes, use your gmail
credentials. Specify 465 for the port and check the box labeled "This
server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)".

I have gmail set up as a
pop3, do I need to do anything on the gmail side.

No, other than set it up for either POP or IMAP.

When you say that my sender is comcast, how will that be. Are you
referring to my return email address. That is my business email
address, which is tied in with the vgernet.

As I said, it looks like I misinterpreted your earlier posts. Don't
change anything about the sending address or the incoming server. Your
goal is strictly to change the outgoing service from Comcast to gmail.

FWIW, that is a small ISP called Inter-Access (www.vgernet.net). I
have used them for twenty plus years.

Don't they supply outgoing servers?

I wonder if some Trekkies started that network. V'ger was the nemesis in
the 1979 movie "Start Trek: The Motion Picture".
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]


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