Simple solution. Get a Gmail email address and forward your Cox email address to it. Then send/receive from the Gmail email address. Cox is weaseling its way out of the email business as evidenced by no email for new Cox customers and subbing out Cox email service to a 3rd party. Cox would rather you take your email elsewhere and it shows by the way they handle it.
You have a good solution but I think OP has enough going on right now.
Not really a solution nor simple. I need Outlook to work and I pay Cox for email. The fact that they block access to their SMTP server and are the only ISP on the planet to do so is simply ridiculous.
I tagged you in another similar post.
