Re: Not able to send Yahoo mail with Outlook Express & dial-up

From: N. Miller (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 23:24:49 -0700

In article <bf2b01c48978$0b5d6f10$a601280a@phx.gbl>, Angela G says...

> Thanks for the quick reply and apologies for lack of
> detail in my previous msg. I'm using XP Home and IE 6.0
> Outlook Express 6.0. Had the same problem before with XP
> Biz.

> The OE error msg says,
> "The connection to the server has failed.
> Account:'pop.mail.yahoo.com',
> Server. 'smtp.mail.yahoo.com',Protocol:SMTP, Port 25,
> Secure(SSL):No, Socket Error.
> 10051, Error Number:0x800CCC0E"
> End of msg. Clear as mud to me.
> I get that msg whether I have under Outgoing Mail
> Server, "My server requires authentication" checked or
> not checked.

Looks familiar...can I recreate the error at will?

> The connection to the server has failed.
> Account: 'Megumi',
> Server: 'smtp.pacbell.yahoo.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 24,
> Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error:
> 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

Yep, I sure can. Now somebody is going to beat me about the head and
shoulders because I took the cheap way out, and changed the destination
sever TCP port to 24 instead of 25. Well, I could have set a rule in my
firewall to block TCP port 25, but the error would be different.

The issue is with your dial-up provider; they are not letting you reach the
Yahoo! mail server because they are blocking port 25 out. Your best bet is
to try and convince Yahoo!, as a paying customer, to implement RFC 2476
email submission servers using SMTP AUTH and TCP port 587. (If you had a
local firewall blocking port 25 access, the error would be different.)

I'd try, but I only have a free Yahoo! account, and my ISP, SBC Yahoo! DSL
Service, expects me to use port 25 with 'smtp.pacbell.yahoo.com'. I have no
traction to get them to consider RFC 2476. 

-- 
Norman
~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint

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