Yes but you can use your hotmail account and use iexplorer 8 I couldn't use my cogeco account but I could use the hotmail account if it doesn't work from thunderbird try the iexplorer8 and see if will be more user friendly I ran into the same problem when I went down east -- Jackie -----Original Message----- From: pchelpers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pchelpers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of G.R. Hanson Sent: October-13-09 1:35 PM To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [pchelpers] sending emails from apartment I am at an apartment in New Orleans. They provide wireless access. (from Cox) I can receive email in Thunderbird, and I can surf the net. What I can't do is reply to emails or send emails from Thunderbird. I get this error when I try: And error occured when sending mail. The mail server sent an incorrect greeting. Cannot connect to SMTP server 208.180.40.68 (208.180.4.68:25) Connect error 10060 So, I CAN send mail if I go to Firefox and log into gmail. But I would like to send mail from Thunderbird and be able to click reply to reply to mail. Any suggestions? -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.