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I have now contacted Cox No Support five times regarding this matter, most calls involving escalation to Tier 2. I am now 9 days into a promised 1-2 day managerial callback (and reqjuested another one yesterday).
Yes, I've changed my password and reset it for my devices. It makes no difference in the failure to send mail via SMTP. The first time that you try to send a message you get this error :
"Sending of the message failed.
The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.cox.net was lost in the middle of the transaction. Try again."
If you then immediately try to send again you get this error :
"Sending of the message failed.
The message could not be sent because the connection to Outgoing server (SMTP) smtp.cox.net timed out. Try again."
For whatever reason I am now able to send messages via my iPhone, at least of yesterday afternoon, and at least from within my own home on wifi. Will try again out in the real world later today. But the problem continues for my laptop running Thunderbird.
For the record I use this same Thunderbird installation to manage seven (7) e-mail accounts, only one of which is with Cox. None of the other accounts are having any issues with either POP or SMTP.
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