Grr, Email!!!

[davidgillon]

I thought I had all the issues with my email setup sorted out, but I'm being driven round the bend by the one I stumbled over today.

I haven't actually needed to send any outgoing email as yet, but got asked for a quote earlier by a disability journalist I know, so went to send it, and that's when I discovered my Outlook setup has an issue with outgoing email - it won't send any.

I think it's probably to do with the SMTP setup, but incoming is working, so I know the username and password are valid, and I've successfully sent a message from the web interface, so it isn't email as a whole, so it's almost certainly the SMTP setup, but what's irritating is it doesn't just ask you for your password once, or three times, or even ten times, it's been asking every couple of minutes for the past six hours, and automatically switches the cursor into the password box of the pop-up, no matter what else you were doing at the time, which is remarkably irritating!!!

I've tried deleting the outgoing message from the Outbox, but Outlook doesn't want to know, probably because it's stuck in some indeterminate state. I susoect I'm going to be pestering Virgin tech support in the morning!

Comments

[green_knight]

my sympathies. Sometimes it's not the outgoing SMPT server that is the problem but the port; I went through that dance a few weeks ago and it was most amusing. Not.

[davidgillon]

I managed to stop it forever prompting me and I may (not quite sure, one seems to have gotten through) have managed to get it send messages, purely accidentally {Rolls eyes}

[jesse_the_k]

Accidental fixes are the worst: nothing gets learned!

Best wishes with the epost.

[davidgillon]

It's officially consigned to the back burner. I prefer Outlook, but I can use the web interface if I have to, and that will post. Too many things to do this week to worry about it.