i tried the googlemail way and got this error message.

The mail could not be sent to the recipients because of the mail server failure. (Sending Mail using Account 2 (2012-10-22T14:47:52). Exception Message: Could not connect to mail server. (A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 173.194.79.16:587). )

So why is the googlemail way still erroring out? i made sure the login credentials were correct.

now, what i failed to mention about is even though this server is for one company, the mail server is on one domain while this is on a different domain. Could that be the reason why I can't send out DB mails from this server? I have not contacted anyone from tech support to see if they can include this server IP on the white list.