Thanks Brian, that helped. Found the answer to my problem in a post with a
link to an article by Diane Poremsky. Deleted an Earthlink spam blocker
add-in from a prior account and outbound works fine.
Tools/Options/AdvancedOptions/COM Add-Ins.
> > In Outlook 2000 on XP, the test message from the account set up
> > dialog box is successful but outgoing emails are blocked (a red x
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> That connection icon has nothing to do with showing mail was blocked. That
> icon means you have "Work Offline" checked in the File menu.
JimUKDellBTYahoo - 15 Apr 2006 01:29 GMT
I think im suffering the sam eproblem how did u resolve it?
> Thanks Brian, that helped. Found the answer to my problem in a post with a
> link to an article by Diane Poremsky. Deleted an Earthlink spam blocker
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> > That connection icon has nothing to do with showing mail was blocked. That
> > icon means you have "Work Offline" checked in the File menu.
Brian Tillman - 16 Apr 2006 18:07 GMT
> I think im suffering the sam eproblem how did u resolve it?
The resolution was in the very message you quoted. Didn't you read it?

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