topic Unable to send email? in Email

Unable to send email?

Surfer — Sat, 06 May 2023 10:20:45 GMT

Had no problem with sending and receiving email until Wednesday. Now I can only receive email, but cannot send. I get the following error message "Sending reported error 0x8004210B: the operation timed out waiting for a response from sending SMTP server". I am using Outlook 365.

I am not sure why it has suddenly failed? Please advise. Thanks.

Re: Unable to send email?

madswitcher — Sat, 06 May 2023 16:10:45 GMT

Yes I am getting the same error using Thunderbird

"Sending of the message failed.
The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) relay.plus.net timed out. Try again."

Re: Unable to send email?

madswitcher — Sat, 06 May 2023 16:53:54 GMT

Knock Knock!

Is there anybody in there?

Re: Unable to send email?

Townman — Sat, 06 May 2023 18:22:32 GMT

Try increasing the server time out to 90 seconds.

Re: Unable to send email?

madswitcher — Sat, 06 May 2023 19:45:20 GMT

Seems to be back up now. 😀

Re: Unable to send email?

Surfer — Sun, 07 May 2023 06:29:16 GMT

Deleted account and set it up again and now working. Not sure why one day it is working and the next day no longer working.

Re: Unable to send email?

Townman — Sun, 07 May 2023 16:06:46 GMT

A multitude of reasons from outlook being confused to network issues … as subtle as what IP address you are using.