I found my Cox smtp problem. Cox was having trouble with reverse DNS
locating my IP address. I turned off my VPN and I can send out email. I
am going to turn on my VPN. If I have to choose I will select VPN over
SMTP problems.
Thanks to all who replied.
Mike Enriquez
On 10/14/19 7:38 PM, Thomas Scott wrote:
> Cox's email platform was recently upgraded, I'd check to see if you're
> using TLS instead of the SSL 3.0 and below. I would third the
> recommendation to get off of Cox's email platform, and I'm writing
> this sitting in Cox's Atlanta NOC. From what I've seen, our IT/Data
> side is moving away from anything customer facing that isn't automated
> and revenue friendly - e-mail is a part of that bit bucket.
>
> <https://about.me/thomas.scott?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=edit_panel&utm_content=thumb>
>
> Thomas Scott
> about.me/thomas.scott
> <https://about.me/thomas.scott?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=edit_panel&utm_content=thumb>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 10:26 PM mike enriquez <mylinux@cox.net
> <mailto:mylinux@cox.net>> wrote:
>
> Cox has new policies. A friend in my area uses incredimail and he
> has the same issues with cox.
>
> I can receive email but I cannot send it out. I am currently using
> Cox Webmail.
>
> Thanks for the comments everyone.
>
> Mike Enriquez
>
>> On October 14, 2019 at 8:52 PM Matthew Crews
>> <mailinglists@mattcrews.com <mailto:mailinglists@mattcrews.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/14/19 10:55 AM, mike enriquez wrote:
>>> I have a fresh install of Ubuntu and Thunderbird email client.
>>> The SMTP
>>> server keeps timing out. Cox cannot help me because I have a Linux
>>> computer. I changed the Port numbers and still I cannot send
>>> email out.
>>>
>>> I am sending this via Web-mail.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have and ideas I should try.
>>
>> That's odd. I used Cox email for years with Thunderbird without
>> issues.
>> Maybe they changed something on their back end?
>>
>> Are you sure you are connecting to the correct SMTP server?
>>
>> Also Cox should not care what operating system you are using.
>> Thunderbird is OS agnostic software. Their instructions for using
>> Thunderbird on Windows should be sufficient.
>>
>> -Matt
>>
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