I'm not totally sure where you are coming from.

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.

Should I be leaving that part alone with comcast as the smtp or changing it
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 have gmail set up as a pop3, do I need to do anything on
the gmail side.

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.

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

I hope I understand this correctly.



"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
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Nate Rosenthal wrote:

I checked at gmail and it appears that IMAP is the way to go. My only
question would be reagrding the incoming and outgoing servers. All my
existing email comes to my my original ISP (mail.vgernet.net). Can I
keep that as the incoming ISP and use the SMTP as gmail or must I do
something else.

Why use gmail's IMAP if you don't intend to ever receive. Change your
existing Comcast account to point to gmail's SMTP server. Do not change
your email address. Enable authentication of the outgoing server. Select
the "Log on using" option and specify your gmail credentials. The mail's
sender will be your Comcast address, but it will be sent via gmail's
server.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]