Nate Rosenthal wrote:
Yesterday I posted a question, which I will restate below.


My email goes into the outbox and basically sits there. There is no
acknowledgement that anything was sent and as a result, nothing shows
up in the sent folder. I don't get an error message or even see a
time out. I was having the same issue with Outlook Express and
Thunderbird. I talked with Comcast and they suggested that I change
the ports to 587 from 25. I did that and they worked.

Just to fill in a couple of more pieces. Comcast is my ISP for
access to the internet and thus I use (smtp.comcast.net). Incoming
mail comes through another isp, where my domain has been kept for
many years. (mail.vgernet.net). I am getting mail in.

The furstrating part is that this was not a problem yesterday
morning. It is also where I run my business. I use Outlook as my
database and everything runs through it.


While waiting for responses, I have looked on this newsgroup for
others with the same problem. Apparently this is not a new thing. There
were a couple of options that I want to explore, but these go
back three to five years.
1) scanpst.exe - I ran it and it found something to repair. When I
tried to repair it, the system went into non-respond.

2) Enable logging of Internet Mail Sessions - It suggested going into
the Registry and doing a little editing.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\......Office\9.0\Outlook\Options \Mail. The
suggestion was to put add a logging box and then type a value. Two
things--I had no Mail in Options (easy enough to add, though); I have
a 10.0, 11.0 and 12.0. Given that this posting goes back to 2006 and
the Solution to 2003, I am guessing that if I am going to do
anything, it would be in 12.0. Am I correct?

Please advise

Not a solution I know, but...

Get a gmail account and use the gmail smtp server to send. If that works Ok,
then you at least can carry on working, and you will have established that
the problem is with your comcast smtp settings and not something system-wide
on your PC.

--
John Blessing

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