# Outlook Express for Mac help!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-for-mac-help/135772>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 7, 2002, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-for-mac-help/135772 "2002-11-07T20:51:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![JAPrufrock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@JAPrufrock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JAPrufrock)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-for-mac-help/135772/1 "2002-11-07T20:51:34Z")

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I’ve been having a major problem with Outlook Express 5.02 for my G3 running on OS 9.2.2. I can send and receive e-mail from my Earthlink account, but I can’t send E-mail from the accounts from my personal websites. I have a website that my friend maintains, and I can receive E-mail on OUtlook, but when I try to send something, it says a connection failure has occurred. This has been going on for over a year. Help me, Straight Dopers!😕

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-for-mac-help/135772/2 "2002-11-07T22:02:29Z")

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How are you connected? Are you on a dial-up or a broadband connection supplied by Earthlink?

If so: have you called Earthlink to find out if they will let you send mail from a SMTP Server other than one of their own? (Verizon, my DSL provider, once did and then one day didn’t, no warning).

If once again so: does Outlook let you change the From: header and the Reply-to: header so that your recipients will experience your outbound email as if it came from your website account(s) even though you’re using Earthlink’s SMTP server?

If not: have you considered switching to Eudora?

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**Author:** ![JAPrufrock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@JAPrufrock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JAPrufrock)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-for-mac-help/135772/3 "2002-11-07T23:21:37Z")

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Holy crap! I can’t believe that worked! Thanks for help, AHunter3:) This has been giving me trouble for over a year now! You rock!!!