Outlook 2003 won't send, will receive

[Guest]

My Outlook 2003 gives me this error message when I try to send:
Task 'pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com - Sending' reported error (0x80070057) :
'Could not complete the operation. One or more parameter values are not
valid.' I have never have this problem before and don't know how to fix it.
What are parameter values? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Vanguard]

My Outlook 2003 gives me this error message when I try to send:
Task 'pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com - Sending' reported error (0x80070057) :
'Could not complete the operation. One or more parameter values are not
valid.' I have never have this problem before and don't know how to fix
it.
What are parameter values? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Free or paid Yahoo account?

 

[Guest]

I am not saying this will work but try the following in outlook
Tools >Email Accounts - select the account to change and next
when you see the account details, select more settings and select outgoing
server, then put a tick in the box "my outgoing server requires
authentication"

Then try again....

 

[Guest]

It's a free account with Yahoo, though I pay for SBC Yahoo DSL service. I
use Outlook as my primary email, however. I only go to the Yahoo mail from
remote computers.

 

[Guest]

I checked that, and "my outgoing server requires authentication" is already
checked. Thank you for trying, anyway.

 

[Guest]

I sent a test email to another email address and it worked fine. I checked
my "stuck" email and realized that there was a problem with the email address
- once the problem was corrected, the email sent fine. My only suggestion is
that the error message should explain what "parameters" are because it was
impossible to figure out the problem based on the error message. Thanks to
all who tried to help me. A dumb mistake!!

 

[Vanguard]

It's a free account with Yahoo, though I pay for SBC Yahoo DSL service. I
use Outlook as my primary email, however. I only go to the Yahoo mail
from
remote computers.

A free Yahoo Mail account does not include access to Yahoo's POP3 and SMTP
servers, so either:

- You are using the webmail interface to Yahoo Mail.
- Or, you are using YahooPOPs as a local POP3-to-HTTP proxy to get your POP3
client (Outlook) to connect to Yahoo Mail (HTTP account).

Since in another post you said that you finally got the message to send then
you are not using the free account to send your outbound mails. Instead you
are using your ISP's SMTP server. However, the above message you showed was
for a POP3 mail server, not for an SMTP server. So either the error message
you showed was for an error while retrieving new e-mails and not for sending
them, or you have the Yahoo account misconfigured in Outlook to specify
Yahoo's POP3 server as the SMTP server.

If you are using Yahoo for DSL, why aren't you using the included mail
account (which would give you POP3 and SMTP access)? You say that you are
using a freebie Yahoo mail account and yet you are connecting to
pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com (which is for incoming mails, not outbound mails),
and that server is for paid accounts. The error message you show (for
receiving mails) does not match the error you describe (sending mails).

 

[Guest]

My ignorance is showing. I do in fact have a paid account (SBC Yahoo DSL)
and I have both POP and SMTP access, as you say. I am using that account,
with Outlook as my primary email software. The error message was caused by
an incorrect email address. Since I corrected that, I have had no more
trouble and everything is working fine. Thanks for your time and trouble in
discussing this with me!

 

[ewillies]

A solution to the Error 0x80070057 assuming it is a pop3 account is to
go to the options in outlook or mail in the control panel and delete
the pop3 account with the error. Make sure to write down all the
necessary logging information and settings before doing this. After
exiting and reentering, create a new pop3 account with the same
parameters.

I believe indeed the problem is caused by MAPI's inability to deal with
malformed messages and at the same time not providing a clean way to
remove said message. When a new account is deleted all its context
seems to be loss so recreation solve the problem.

 

[Brian Tillman]

My Outlook 2003 gives me this error message when I try to send:
Task 'pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com - Sending' reported error (0x80070057) :

Try installing the latest version of MDAC for your Windows. See
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