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An error occurred while sending mail: The mail server sent an incorrect greeting:

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An error occurred while sending mail: The mail server sent an incorrect greeting:

An error occurred while sending mail: The mail server sent an incorrect greeting:

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and the rest of the error message was? Sounds like you might have tried sending mail using the incoming, not outgoing server. But that is a complete guess without the rest of the message.

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and the rest of the error message was? Sounds like you might have tried sending mail using the incoming, not outgoing server. But that is a complete guess without the rest of the message.

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problem appears to be solved.

restart computer !!!

Thanks