Re: Weird Outlook (maybe) problem

["Bob Crothers" <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Note that somebody pointed out that port 465 is the normal SSL smtp port.
So it is still possible that the ISP has blocked it.  Don't know if they do
that with the SSL ports or not.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Chuck Lewis
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 12:06 PM
> To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Weird Outlook (maybe) problem
>
> Wow, that is interesting. I will try that and the note about trying my
> email
> is a great one, thanks !
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Bob Crothers
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 11:13 AM
> To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Weird Outlook (maybe) problem
>
> That is probably exactly why they have you use "strange" ports.
>
> Have you tried using your son's machine to get your gmail?  If it works,
> then the problem is in the configuration of his gmail account.  If it
> doesn't work, the problem is someplace between Outlook, his machine, and
> his
> ISP.
>
> The strange thing is that I can NOT telnet into smtp.gmail.com over port
> 995
> or 465.  But I was ok going over port 25.  Perhaps just for grins and
> giggles, you should try using the standard port.
>
> Bob