Originally Posted by
Aviatrix
More and more connectivity providers have now started blocking Port 25 traffic (which is the port used for non-secure connections and for TLS)
My company server uses SSL (Port 465) which usually gets round the problem (In other words, I've never had Port 465 traffic blocked)
I have AT&T (formerly Bell South) at home, and they block port 25. I talked to the company IT guy, and he has the mail server listening to an alternate port for just this reason. He gave me the port number, I plugged it into Outlook, problem solved.