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I am having trouble sending emails. It says "An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server sent an incorrect greeting. Could not connect to Server SMPT

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I can recieve emails on my pc and phone to, but cannot send from my pc. it says "An error occurred while sending mail: The mail server sent an incorrect greeting: Cannot connect to SMTP server 211.29.132.250 (211.29.132.250:25), connect error 10060. Can anybody help cause if have to send documents that are on my computer. cheers smac

I can recieve emails on my pc and phone to, but cannot send from my pc. it says "An error occurred while sending mail: The mail server sent an incorrect greeting: Cannot connect to SMTP server 211.29.132.250 (211.29.132.250:25), connect error 10060. Can anybody help cause if have to send documents that are on my computer. cheers smac

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That IP resolves to mail.optusnet.com.au, so besides that being your outgoing SMTP server, do you have the port = 25, connection security = None, authentication = password, transmitted insecurely, and User name = your email address? If port 25 doesn't work, try 587.

http://www.optus.com.au/shop/support/answer/using-an-email-application-with-optusnet-email?requestType=NormalRequest&id=1434&typeId=5