You people have given me more ideas than 9 Sympatico techs put together, 3
of whom took over my computer and entered what they thought were the correct
entries. Back to you tomorrow when I have an hour or so to find out if the
suggestions work. In the meantime, thank you.

Andrew

"Andrew Brook" <abrook@ccs.carleton.ca> wrote in message
news:0YOdnej1kLdboBvVnZ2dnUVZ_tXinZ2d@mozilla.org. ..
> Just signed on with Sympatico (Bell Canada). Can receive mail in T-bird
> and send and receive in Outlook but cannot connect to Sympatico's outgoing
> SMTP server or send email in T-bird. Over the past week 8 tech support
> people over 10-15 hours of phone time have gone at this. They finally got
> Outlook going but that didn't help with the T-bird problem.
>
> All the settings have been checked multiple times, I even went to Bell's
> support site to check that I had the right setting for my email address.
>
> What is truly weird is that the SMTP server of my old ISP works in
> Sympatico. (I haven't cancelled the account yet.)
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Andrew
>
> abrook@ccs.carleton.ca