Well apparently mail.com has now suspended free access to their SMTP send server. I've tried sending out over both ports 465 SSL and 587 with no success, and that's fine. If that's the way that the administrators of mail.com want to be, then that is their right. It is also our right as users to move our service to another provider, so I cancelled my account and gave the following reason to them for doing so:
Because you all have decided to get greedy and take both POP3 and IMAP access to free users, I will be discontinuing my account with you all. See my postings at:
What are the pop and imap servers for mail.com ?
Now, if you all would like to change your minds and give people back free access to both POP3 and IMAP access, I will consider coming back, but until then, you can reach me at my new primary e-mail address - address rededicated
See, two can play that game too. You all are not the only game in town or in this case on the Internet and that's why AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, and others are kicking you alls asses right now. Guess we're just going to have to teach you all the same lesson that Steve Case learned with AOL back in the 1990's