In October, I asked for and received help about how to send email from OutLook while using my wifi card equipped laptop at various locations on our little run up the rivers. Severla folks asked me to relate the eventual solution. The upshot was that where the server allowed it, I could send BellSouth account emails using OutLook, and where the server did not allow it, I just had to use the internet access to BellSouth's website to send email. I was always able to receive BellSouth email on my OutLook. Replying via the BellSouth website was not so great because the copy was not maintained there, and I had to copy stuff back to the website to respond. I could have set the OutLook to leave a copy on the website, but for various reasons, I did not. Two big problems with the BellSouth website, which I rarely ever use for email (meaning the contact list there was out of date), were the inability to import contacts from OutLook and to create address groups. I took a good suggestion and started a gmail account where the website looks a lot like BellSouth's but gives you the ability to import addresses and to create address groups. Since that time, I have been working at getting better mobile connectivity starting with dumping Nextel (contract ended in November) and getting Verizon phones. We had a borrowed Verizon cell phone on our trip and were impressed with the connectivity - not perfect, but much better than Nextel. The next thing that happened was that our area got the broadband Verizon service this month, and I can now use a National Access card at home for good connectivity. Then started the "big email trial" where I tested the ability to send and receive email to/from all three of my email accounts. Again gmail came through with an automatic configuration application for my OutLook 2000, and I can now use OutLook hooked up to the Verizon card to send and receive email on the gmail account. I already knew that the work-related email server would not allow me to send email remotely from that account, but I can receive it fine and reply via gmail. Again, the BellSouth email account was problematic in that it would not allow me to send email from OutLook while hooked up to the Verizon card. I contacted both Verizon and BellSouth help people who pointed their fingers at each other (wish I could conference call them). No combination of settings would allow the BellSouth email to exit the computer via OutLook when connected through Verizon. Go figure. i am always willing to try suggested solutions, if anybody has them, but I have followed the online and phoned directions from Bellsouth to no avail. The BellSouth question may well be moot, since I am considering dumping their DSL service and getting a router to plug the Verizon card into for Internet connection of the desktop computer. The only thing not resolved with the admiral is the lack of internet on the home desktop computer when I am gone with the laptop and Verizon card. I could always leave the Verizon card and limp around with the wifi card if I am going to be in places where that service is available - like hotels. Since I am quitting work in two weeks, I can assume that she will probably be with me any time I am off with the laptop, making the decision to dump the DSL (and reluctant BellSouth email account along with it) a bit closer to happening. Who knows? Maybe we'll dump the land line completely some day. Rich Gano CALYPSO (GB-42-CL #295) Southport, FL

Try setting the outgoing (SMTP) server to port 587. This is at tools, accounts (your mail server), properties, advanced. I had the same problem and this fixed it. Don't ask for the explanation, I've forgotten. Has something to do with spammers and they way they use computers to forward junk mail. Keith _____ "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Gano" <richgano@gmail.com> > > Again, the BellSouth email account was problematic in that it would not > allow me to send email from OutLook while hooked up to the Verizon card.