Outlook Express - please help!

I am trying to receive my emails on Outlook Express and I'm getting this message:

"The host 'POP3' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the server name correctly. Account: 'POP3', Server: 'POP3', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11001, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D"

Can anyone help?

Well i'll do my best to help you.....

working from a new window here kellysafc

Lets start with go to outlook=accounts=general should come up in properties it will say "type the name by which you would like to refer to these servers", i put in the box pop.myserver which is something like freeserve.com but put in your own here.

Remember the . is very important kellysafc

now go to name further down in next box then e-mail address at the bottom tick "include this account when reciving mail or sycronising"

In servers make sure it says "my incoming mail is a pop3"

next click servers put in there pop.yourserver.com/co.uk whichevea yours is, this is for incoming mail.

For outgoing mail do this.
SMTP.yourservername,com/.co.uk whicheva it is again account name and password.

In connections make sure always connect to this account using is ticked.


Thats it as far as i know kellysafc any problems just post.

kristi.....

That looked pretty correct. I'll double check in a bit. But first, copy this down in about three different places. I can't count how many jams the information on this site has saved me from:

Inside Outlook Express

I bet there's something in there that will help, if kristi's advice doesn't.

As for me, I just upgraded to OLE6, and it's different from 5.5. Here, there's only one server for both in and out, and it doesn't seem to care about po3 or SMTP, or anything else.

Oberon, hi, hey thats a good link you supplied there, thanks.

I had to laugh though, they supply a patch , but in the same breath lmaoo theres a bug in the patch too......

One bug this patch was designed to correct, is the annoying fact that OE always defaults to My Documents when you save an attachment. Unfortunately the patch itself has a bug that prevents the new fix from working. The user-selected path for attachments is indeed written to the registry, but the final character in the path name is dropped, which means it won't work. Since the path stored at that point is not a valid path, OE dutifully defaults to, you guessed it, My Documents. Microsoft are aware of this problem (and probably more than a little embarrassed by it).

Kristi.

That is funny. I hadn't looked at the patch. I haven't been back to the site for months. Although I plan to return to see if Tom has anything new on archiving your email in a generic format. I have all these old OLE data stores I want to convert.

I don't know if you're aware, but MS just announced they will no longer support OLE. As well, OLE is one of those things where MS uses it's own secret format for the message and address book files.

So, I'm going to be switching to Outlook. But I understand that's only a bit better, For instance, you would think that all of Office would use the same address book - NOOOOO. And that Outlook would have a correspondence DB, integrated with Access, NOOOO.