Multiple POP problems

Help!!

I unfortunately have important emails going to several accounts: aol,
gmail, yahoo, hotmail. And it is clearly a pain to read and keep up with
each of them...

Equally as unfortunate.... I have a new laptop with Vista. It would be
nice to have one email server, using POP or whatever, that can deal with all
my emails. But, alas... I have the following problems using Windows Mail
in this regard, althuogh I believe I have followed instructions -- to the
letter -- for all servers (thru web searches for help):

aol: broken completely

gmail: can read email, but sending gives message "cannot find server"

yahoo: prompts me for login/passwd each time, but, when entered, reprompts
again.

Any help would be seriusly appreciated. I spend most of my work time
fighting with email, not even reading and replying to messages.....

Steve

Get your settings from your various ISPs.
"Chgo Maverick" <stevenarichards@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:98143E7A-24A6-4AE0-B5B4-265C900F08E1@microsoft.com...
> Help!!
>
> I unfortunately have important emails going to several accounts: aol,
> gmail, yahoo, hotmail. And it is clearly a pain to read and keep up with
> each of them...
>
> Equally as unfortunate.... I have a new laptop with Vista. It would be
> nice to have one email server, using POP or whatever, that can deal with
> all my emails. But, alas... I have the following problems using Windows
> Mail in this regard, althuogh I believe I have followed instructions -- to
> the letter -- for all servers (thru web searches for help):
>
> aol: broken completely
>
> gmail: can read email, but sending gives message "cannot find server"
>
> yahoo: prompts me for login/passwd each time, but, when entered,
> reprompts again.
>
> Any help would be seriusly appreciated. I spend most of my work time
> fighting with email, not even reading and replying to messages.....
>
> Steve

"Chgo Maverick" <stevenarichards@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:98143E7A-24A6-4AE0-B5B4-265C900F08E1@microsoft.com...
> Help!!
>
> I unfortunately have important emails going to several accounts: aol,
> gmail, yahoo, hotmail. And it is clearly a pain to read and keep up with
> each of them...
>
> Equally as unfortunate.... I have a new laptop with Vista. It would be
> nice to have one email server, using POP or whatever, that can deal with
> all my emails. But, alas... I have the following problems using Windows
> Mail in this regard, althuogh I believe I have followed instructions -- to
> the letter -- for all servers (thru web searches for help):
>
> aol: broken completely
>
> gmail: can read email, but sending gives message "cannot find server"
>
> yahoo: prompts me for login/passwd each time, but, when entered,
> reprompts again.
>
> Any help would be seriusly appreciated. I spend most of my work time
> fighting with email, not even reading and replying to messages.....
>
> Steve

WinMail uses the same settings as Outlook Express. If you export the
accounts from OE as IAF files, WinMail can import them.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Answer in newsgroup. Don't expect an answer to email.

First order of business, if you are running either McAfee or
Norton antivirus, uninstall them. See
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

Post the exact error message for one account, and
we can attempt to help you fix them one at a time.
I suggest you start with Gmail, making sure it is configured
like this:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/...py?answer=13276
Particularly note the port numbers and SSL setting.

Gary VanderMolen

"Chgo Maverick" <stevenarichards@gmail.com> wrote in message news:98143E7A-24A6-4AE0-B5B4-265C900F08E1@microsoft.com...
> Help!!
>
> I unfortunately have important emails going to several accounts: aol,
> gmail, yahoo, hotmail. And it is clearly a pain to read and keep up with
> each of them...
>
> Equally as unfortunate.... I have a new laptop with Vista. It would be
> nice to have one email server, using POP or whatever, that can deal with all
> my emails. But, alas... I have the following problems using Windows Mail
> in this regard, althuogh I believe I have followed instructions -- to the
> letter -- for all servers (thru web searches for help):
>
> aol: broken completely
>
> gmail: can read email, but sending gives message "cannot find server"
>
> yahoo: prompts me for login/passwd each time, but, when entered, reprompts
> again.
>
> Any help would be seriusly appreciated. I spend most of my work time
> fighting with email, not even reading and replying to messages.....
>
> Steve
>

"Chgo Maverick" <stevenarichards@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:98143E7A-24A6-4AE0-B5B4-265C900F08E1@microsoft.com...
> Help!!
>
> I unfortunately have important emails going to several accounts: aol,
> gmail, yahoo, hotmail. And it is clearly a pain to read and keep up with
> each of them...
>
> Equally as unfortunate.... I have a new laptop with Vista. It would be
> nice to have one email server, using POP or whatever, that can deal with
> all my emails. But, alas... I have the following problems using Windows
> Mail in this regard, althuogh I believe I have followed instructions -- to
> the letter -- for all servers (thru web searches for help):
>
> aol: broken completely
>
> gmail: can read email, but sending gives message "cannot find server"
>
> yahoo: prompts me for login/passwd each time, but, when entered,
> reprompts again.
>
> Any help would be seriusly appreciated. I spend most of my work time
> fighting with email, not even reading and replying to messages.....
>
> Steve