[nabs-l] can't send email using Microsoft Outlook and Gmail account

Nell orlowski dreami.eyes at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 02:52:21 UTC 2012


I use Microsoft 2007 because I don't like office 2010

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From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Joshua Lester
Sent: April 04, 2012 9:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] can't send email using Microsoft Outlook and Gmail
account

Wow!
I'd contact the Microsoft company.
Blessings, Joshua

On 4/4/12, Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm having a very frustrating problem with Microsoft Outlook 2010. I
> finally got it set up with my Gmail account and got it to receive
> emails. For some reason, it thought I was using the trial version of
> Microsoft Office (and I might well have been,) and wanted me to buy
> the full version. The funny thing is that I had bought Microsoft
> Office when I bought my laptop back in 2010. I reentered the product
> key and reinstalled Office, and Outlook seemed to work. I then told it
> to receive emails by pressing control m, and that worked. The problem,
> however, is I can't send, reply, or forward emails. I tried both
> pressing control n and clicking on "new message" from the home tab on
> the virtual ribbons. Both of these methods did nothing; when I pressed
> control n, JAWS just said "control n" and did nothing, and when I
> clicked on new message from the ribbon, it just stayed in my Inbox. I
> went into my account settings, and noticed that my SMTP (outgoing mail
> server) port was set to 587, so I changed it to 465, as this was the
> port number which worked when I set my BrailleNote up to send and
> receive emails from my Gmail account, and my BrailleNote uses the same
> servers (POP and SMTP) to send and receive emails as Outlook. But even
> after this setting was changed, I still can't send email from my
> account using Outlook. Very frustrating and weird! Do any of you have
> any ideas as to how to fix this? I'm using the Gmail Web site to write
> this email, but I'd love to use Outlook, as I think it works very well
> and is easy to navigate using JAWS. So, any help would be greatly
> appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
> --
> Chris Nusbaum
>
> "The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight. The real
> problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that exists. If
> a blind person has the proper training and opportunity, blindness can
> be reduced to a mere physical nuissence." -- Kenneth Jernigan
>
> Visit the I C.A.N. Foundation online at: www.icanfoundation.info for
> information on our foundation and how it helps blind and visually
> impaired children in MD say "I can!"
>
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