How to set up Gmail in Outlook when the ISP blocks SMTP?

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In Outlook, I'm setting up a Gmail account and I'm not able to send mails because my ISP is blocking SMTP forward.

Any ways to bypass this?

EDIT

I've tried different settings, followed Gmail support inscructions and still not working.

telnet smtp.gmail.com 465
telnet smtp.gmail.com 587
telnet smtp.gmail.com 25
all of them reply:

Connecting To smtp.gmail.com...Could not open connection to the host, on port xxx : Connect failed

and I don't have an email acount from my ISP.

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