12-12-2006, 03:47 PM
About two weeks ago I had very similar problems. Could receive mail, but couldn't send it. Hours on the phone with my ISP (Earthlink), who felt the problem was with the router. Bought a new router, same problems. At one point I couldn't even access the router through the browser.
Got bumped up to level two support at E'link. They had me check the settings on the Airport. (Two laptops work off the Airport, two desktops were hard wired to the router.) Turns out that somehow the Airport settings had gotten munged. The setting to turn OFF the Airport's ability to act as a router and assign IP addresses had gotten turned ON. So both the D-Link and the Airport were fighting each other over assigning addresses thus confusing all internet applications. Resetting the Airport to not act as a router solved my problems.
E'link also had me delete and reconstruct all my mailboxes. I was still using the old STMP format for outgoing server, but E'link had switched to STMPAUTH.
Got bumped up to level two support at E'link. They had me check the settings on the Airport. (Two laptops work off the Airport, two desktops were hard wired to the router.) Turns out that somehow the Airport settings had gotten munged. The setting to turn OFF the Airport's ability to act as a router and assign IP addresses had gotten turned ON. So both the D-Link and the Airport were fighting each other over assigning addresses thus confusing all internet applications. Resetting the Airport to not act as a router solved my problems.
E'link also had me delete and reconstruct all my mailboxes. I was still using the old STMP format for outgoing server, but E'link had switched to STMPAUTH.