I use Thunderbird to access my email. Until yesterday afternoon, everything was OK then the smtp.verizon.net server started timing out and I can not send emails. The pop server for incoming messages is fine. I went over it and over it with AOL on twitter and then they sent me a phone number to call, and they persist in claiming that there is no problem. Thunderbird error message is failure due to timing out. Telnet and ping show the same.
C:\Users\Jason>telnet smtp.verizon.net 465
Connecting To smtp.verizon.net...Could not open connection to the host, on port 465: Connect failed
C:\Users\Jason>ping smtp.verizon.net
Pinging smtp-verizonmail.egslb.aol.com [64.12.88.168] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 64.12.88.168:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),