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Outlook and NordVPN
Just in case you are receiving 0X800CCC0E errors and you have NordVPN.. That is likely the source of the problem. I've set up split tunneling, added Outlook as an excluded application, modified port...
My further reply (which you'll see above here when it has been approved) suggested that setting up split tunnelling to add Outlook as an excluded application (see image below) worked on my Outlook 2021.
Which it did on the first occasion.
However, it has now reverted to Outlook NOT working even though it is excluded and therefore should be unaffected by the VPN, and still even when the VPN itself has been paused!
Absolutely infuriating, and the only workaround I now have (not counting using the clumsy webmail instead of Outlook) is to restart Windows without NordVPN being configured to restart automatically, then do my Outlook work, before finally restarting NordVPN.
Then repeat that nonsensical procedure each time I want to use Outlook.
Microsoft and NordVPN, please get your acts together and make your respective products work competently with each other!!!
I've now found an abbreviated workaround.
(Previously, I had to restart Windows without NordVPN being configured to restart automatically, then do my Outlook work, before finally restarting NordVPN.)
Now I find that the quicker workaround is to use Task Manager to end the NordVPN task, then do my Outlook work, then restart NordVPN. It should still not be necessary, but it is quicker than having to restart Windows.
The moment that the NordVPN task is ended, the emails which had been stuck in the Outbox immediately send, proving definitively that this problem is an incompatibility between NordVPN and Outlook.