Many ISPs, as an anti-spam measure, only permit their customers to send
outbound mail by way of the ISP's email server(s).  Is it possible that AOL
9.0 has tried to change your configuration to use AOL's servers instead?

David Gillett


On 18 Jan 2004 at 17:30, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Hello, I am a member of both soft and build discussion lists, but cannot send
> any email these days from anything other than my AOL accounts.  I receive my
> outlook email all just fine, I just cannot send.  I have not changed anything
> about my outlook to cause this--and have also confirmed that all is correct
> with my ISP.  I cannot reach you all to even post my question.  I am not running
> any virus software on this CPU, and the only software that I have changed is
> upgrading to AOL 9.  I do recall a long time ago reading that AOL can screw up
> one's Internet, but I never paid attention to that info because it never
> happened to me.  Now. I am wondering if that is the problem...
>
> So ... do you know of any diagnostic test that I can rum that can tell me
> what the issue is?  I am out of ideas...
>
> Thank you,
>
> Kathleen La Valley O'Malley

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