When the Blaster virus hit, the Twin Cities broadband path from Time Warner cable to Earthlink's "smtpauth" got hosed up or taken down for repair etc. During that couple of weeks, I could not get outbound email connections from Dunn Brothers two sites in Dakota County, but inbound and web was fine. I think I had "transient success" several days last week, but it's out solidly now and my system is fine elsewhere and Earthlink upper level tech support sees no problems for my account or their universe (we proved it's not me or them). Outbound is working for some folks who use a different ISP when it doesn't work for me. Anybody know what's going on? Do other SurfThing sites have this loss of functionality? I haven't had a chance to visit others yet. Chuck _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.tcwug.org tcwug-list at tcwug.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list