Does this help? Example 1 - the reported error is of the following form: "The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was = rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail address was 'username@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'. Subject 'subject', Account: 'oceanfree account', Server: 'smtp.oceanfree.net', Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: '553. To send = mail, first check your mail with a valid POP account; this prevents = unauthorized SPAM relaying. (#5.7.1)', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 553, Error Number: 0x800CCC79"=20 Solution: If you start Outlook Express after connecting to the Oceanfree service in general you will not experience this error message. This is because OE at start-up automatically logs on to the server to download = email prior to sending any email thereby establishing the authorisation of the sender. Similarly, if you send your email by doing a full Send/Receive = in OE you should not experience any difficulty. If you wish to be able to send messages without doing a full Send/Receive or if you wish to have = Outlook Express active on your PC prior to connecting to the Oceanfree service = we recommend the following modification to your Outlook Express = configuration.=20 Start Outlook Express and go to Tools menu option and select Accounts. = Click on your oceanfree account and choose Properties. Select the Servers tab. = At the bottom of this tab in an area titled "Outgoing Mail Server" untick = the check box titled "My server requires authentication". Save the new = setting and this will ensure that the next time you use OE it will authorise = itself to the mail server in all circumstances thereby avoiding this error = message. =20 -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On = Behalf Of Phreding@xxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 10:01 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis -- -- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis -- Help needed - sending email messages from Outlook results in the = following message: =20 Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. =20 Subject: test Sent: 4/17/2003 9:32 AM =20 The following recipient(s) could not be reached: =20 'xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx' on 4/17/2003 9:32 AM 553 To send mail, first check your mail with a valid POP account; this prevents unauthorized SPAM relaying. (#5.7.1) =20 A church staff member is having this problem on her MS Office Xp laptop. It frequently gets connected to "unknown-configured" intranets and = exhibits this problem usually after getting back to her "known-configured" = intranet that is serviced via a gateway to the internet. =20 List of related(?) facts: 1: She can download (read) email messages from the account just fine. She is only having problems sending messages. 2: I've disabled Norton so it does not scan outbound email messages. 3: The servers for her account are: Incoming (POP3) pop.mindspring.com = and Outgoing (SMTP) smtp.earthlink.net 3: I can setup her email account on my MS Office Xp installation and = perform BOTH sends and receives. I think this proves the SMTP server is running okay. 4: On her laptop, I delete the email account and re-create it from = scratch. No effect -- she still gets the error when sending messages. I think this proves it has something to do with a configuration setting = on her laptop, outside the account information. 5: I add my email account to her machine and she can perform sends just fine. I think this proves her laptop is capable of communicating with = an SMTP server. 6: We've tried sending messages to many different email addresses; it doesn't work for any of them. =20 At this point I'm attempting to understand if this error is generated by Outlook. Please help if you can. =20 --Phred ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************