No different than for the last year - not sure what the frequency is (defaulted to whatever Outlook 2013 is), but the server timeout is at 1 min...
This is for a 3rd party email account (not @rogers.com) - not sure if there's still the requirement for the 'authenticated SMTP' to allow me to send via rogers servers. Regardless, will try logging into the Rogers webmail to see if that clears any lockouts, although, as i said, haven't had any issues in ages until today.
The fact that several people suddenly had this happen probably means that there was some server issue (corrected by now) that Rogers is not talking about - people may have tried various things, and they all worked coincidentally since Rogers probably fixed the issue in the background at the same time!
I changed my SMTP server to something else, tried to log in (and failed, because i didn't bother changing the login id), and then changed it back to Rogers, and voila, it works again! Gonna wait and see if this happens again...
Thanks