Hi @steve lapp ,
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Does this issue only happened to your pixel phone? And can you successfully send emails out from your laptop Outlook?
According to your description, sounds like your issue is more related to your Outlook for mobile app. Please kindly understand that here we mainly focus on general issues about Outlook desktop client and know little about Outlook for mobile app. So, in order to better solve your issue, I would suggest you to post your issue to the dedicated forum for Outlook for Android.
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