I've been using Outlook Express as my news reader for years. I have three or
four Internet connections, most of them dialup, that I use at different
times of year and/or in different locations. Currently I am accessing the
Internet (and getting mail and news) via a broadband DSL connection, as I
have been doing with no problems for a few months. Call it account A.

Suddenly today when I click Send/Receive or Headers, I get an error message
saying that my password was rejected by account B, which I haven't used for
months. I have removed account B, and all others besides A, from the list of
accounts under Tools>Accounts>News. Why, then, do I keep getting this error
message about an account that's not even listed on the newsgroup accounts
list (or on the All or Mail tabs) when I'm trying to send/receive newsgroup
posts?

Thanks!

Joan

A Baffled User <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I've been using Outlook Express as my news reader for years. I have
> three or four Internet connections, most of them dialup, that I use
> at different times of year and/or in different locations. Currently I
> am accessing the Internet (and getting mail and news) via a broadband
> DSL connection, as I have been doing with no problems for a few
> months. Call it account A.
> Suddenly today when I click Send/Receive or Headers, I get an error
> message saying that my password was rejected by account B, which I
> haven't used for months. I have removed account B, and all others
> besides A, from the list of accounts under Tools>Accounts>News. Why,
> then, do I keep getting this error message about an account that's
> not even listed on the newsgroup accounts list (or on the All or Mail
> tabs) when I'm trying to send/receive newsgroup posts?

Ask in an Outlook Express newsgroup, like
microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general. This newsgroup is for Office
Outlook.
--
Brian Tillman

Thanks, but the only Outlook Express newsgroups I was able to find through
my ISP, Verizon DSL, had either "mac" or "inetexplorer" appended to them. I
don't have a Mac, and I don't use Internet Explorer.

I do, however, have Office, and the program I use for e-mail is the Office
version of Outlook. When I click View>Go to>News from within that Office
version of Outlook I am taken to Outlook Express. I.e., the Outlook Express
news reader I am using is part of my Office suite.

In any case, God knows why, things seem to be working normally this
morning...

Joan

"Brian Tillman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>A Baffled User <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> I've been using Outlook Express as my news reader for years. I have
>> three or four Internet connections, most of them dialup, that I use
>> at different times of year and/or in different locations. Currently I
>> am accessing the Internet (and getting mail and news) via a broadband
>> DSL connection, as I have been doing with no problems for a few
>> months. Call it account A.
>> Suddenly today when I click Send/Receive or Headers, I get an error
>> message saying that my password was rejected by account B, which I
>> haven't used for months. I have removed account B, and all others
>> besides A, from the list of accounts under Tools>Accounts>News. Why,
>> then, do I keep getting this error message about an account that's
>> not even listed on the newsgroup accounts list (or on the All or Mail
>> tabs) when I'm trying to send/receive newsgroup posts?
>
> Ask in an Outlook Express newsgroup, like
> microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general. This newsgroup is for Office
> Outlook.
> --
> Brian Tillman

A Baffled User <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Thanks, but the only Outlook Express newsgroups I was able to find
> through my ISP, Verizon DSL, had either "mac" or "inetexplorer"
> appended to them. I don't have a Mac, and I don't use Internet
> Explorer.

Use Microsoft's news server.
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...xpress.general
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...outlookexpress

> I do, however, have Office, and the program I use for e-mail is the
> Office version of Outlook. When I click View>Go to>News from within
> that Office version of Outlook I am taken to Outlook Express. I.e.,
> the Outlook Express news reader I am using is part of my Office suite.

No it's not part of the Office Suite. It's part of WIndows and Internet
Explorer. All the News command does is call Outlook Express with the
/outnews command line switch to give OE an "Outlook News Reader" skin. It's
still pure Outlook Express.
--
Brian Tillman

Aha! Thanks for the links to the msnews sites. I didn't realize that I could
subscribe to newsgroups that weren't offered by my Verizon news server.

Joan

"Brian Tillman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>A Baffled User <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, but the only Outlook Express newsgroups I was able to find
>> through my ISP, Verizon DSL, had either "mac" or "inetexplorer"
>> appended to them. I don't have a Mac, and I don't use Internet
>> Explorer.
>
> Use Microsoft's news server.
> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...xpress.general
> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...outlookexpress
>
>> I do, however, have Office, and the program I use for e-mail is the
>> Office version of Outlook. When I click View>Go to>News from within
>> that Office version of Outlook I am taken to Outlook Express. I.e.,
>> the Outlook Express news reader I am using is part of my Office suite.
>
> No it's not part of the Office Suite. It's part of WIndows and Internet
> Explorer. All the News command does is call Outlook Express with the
> /outnews command line switch to give OE an "Outlook News Reader" skin.
> It's still pure Outlook Express.
> --
> Brian Tillman