VPN blocking outgoing email in MS Outlook

Starting Friday 9/12/25, my outgoing emails were stuck in the outgoing mail.

The error message essentially said “cannot connect to SMTP server.

This went on for 2 days. I asked ChatGPT and it suggested looking at the VPN.

Once I turned off the VPN, the mail would send.

I have to remember to turn off VPN to send email.

I’ve had AVG VPN for years and this is the 1st issue with email.

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