Unable to Connect SMTP Server

Unable to Connect SMTP Server

Hi,

Love the suite of Business Apps. Looking forward to them all being integrated, sharing common modules.

In the mean time, I am experiencing an error configuring an external SMTP server for outgoing emails. When I configured it in the control pannel, everything seemed to be ok, cos it checked at the time, that all the connections could be made, authentication was correct etc etc.

However outgoing mail just sits in my outbox with a 'Connect Time Out' error for that smtp server. My smtp provider accepts port 23, 25, 26 and 2525. None of these seem to make a difference. Interestingly, if I configure it to use gmail on 465 as the smtp server, it seems to work. Weird.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Luke