outlook 2003 send problem

[mmullins]

I use a SONY GRX590 laptop at home and at work running XP pro and Outlook 2003. I have several e-mail accounts at various offsite locations. For each account, the SMTP server is the send server for that e-mail account. When I'm at work, everything works fine (my mail server is configured to forward for me). When I travel or am at home and try to send e-mail, most of the time, the message will hang in the outbox. By selecting the message and forwarding it I can sometimes get it to send. If I do test messages through account management, they work with no problems.

My work e-mail is through an Exchange server but I'm set up to download everything and I have Outlook setup for an online and offline configuration so that offline, it goes to the exchange server as a pop 3 with another name.

If I change my SMPT server to my home ISP then things work but that's a pain. Is there a reasonable way around this dilemna?

[renegade600]

I do not think you can change it since the smtp of your isp is needed to send email. Your best bet is to see if your office email can be picked on via webmail.

You could try to setup a second email account in your outlook using the settings you need when you are away from the office.