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Sheriff Abuzahra
I have 2 hotmail accounts. I can configure one for use with outlook 2002
but whenever I add a second it does not work. Any ideas?
but whenever I add a second it does not work. Any ideas?
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"Sheriff Abuzahra" said in news:[email protected]:
Although some users have managed to defined 2 and even 3 HTTP accounts in
OL2002, Microsoft only supports one HTTP account per mail profile
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=325114). You will need to define
multiple mail profiles (Mail applet in Control Panel) and decide which to
use when you start Outlook.
Or, screw Microsoft's short sightedness and instead use Hotmail Popper which
runs as a POP3-to-HTTP proxy on your computer. You define as many Hotmail
accounts as you want in whatever is your e-mail client but as POP3 accounts
which then use Hotmail Popper to access your Hotmail accounts.
One problem that I've seen when using POP3-to-HTTP proxies, like Hotmail
Popper and YahooPOPs, is that they can only report the -ERR status if the
webmail service is down. POP3 only has 2 statuses: +OK and -ERR. So when
your e-mail client connects to the POP3-to-HTTP proxy but it cannot connect
to the webmail service because it is down, busy, unresponsive, or whatever,
all it can return is the -ERR status so your e-mail client figures the login
failed and pops up a dialog asking you to enter the username and password.
The problem is not that the username and password were incorrect because the
login page was never even reached. But with just +OK and -ERR for status,
the e-mail client doesn't know what went wrong. SMTP has lots more status
codes (although some do far more duty regarding the number of errors than
they should) but POP3 sucks for providing so little status regarding what
happens during a POP3 session. So the defect isn't really the fault of the
POP3-to-HTTP proxy but rather that POP3 provides so little information in
regards to status. For any possible source of problem, -ERR is used for
them all. So if you use these POP3-to-HTTP proxies and sometimes get a
popup telling you to reenter the username and password, it isn't always a
problem with the security permissions on the registry keys, corrupted mail
profiles, and other such problems but rather that the webmail service is
unavailable at the time.
I have 2 hotmail accounts. I can configure one for use with outlook
2002 but whenever I add a second it does not work. Any ideas?
Although some users have managed to defined 2 and even 3 HTTP accounts in
OL2002, Microsoft only supports one HTTP account per mail profile
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=325114). You will need to define
multiple mail profiles (Mail applet in Control Panel) and decide which to
use when you start Outlook.
Or, screw Microsoft's short sightedness and instead use Hotmail Popper which
runs as a POP3-to-HTTP proxy on your computer. You define as many Hotmail
accounts as you want in whatever is your e-mail client but as POP3 accounts
which then use Hotmail Popper to access your Hotmail accounts.
One problem that I've seen when using POP3-to-HTTP proxies, like Hotmail
Popper and YahooPOPs, is that they can only report the -ERR status if the
webmail service is down. POP3 only has 2 statuses: +OK and -ERR. So when
your e-mail client connects to the POP3-to-HTTP proxy but it cannot connect
to the webmail service because it is down, busy, unresponsive, or whatever,
all it can return is the -ERR status so your e-mail client figures the login
failed and pops up a dialog asking you to enter the username and password.
The problem is not that the username and password were incorrect because the
login page was never even reached. But with just +OK and -ERR for status,
the e-mail client doesn't know what went wrong. SMTP has lots more status
codes (although some do far more duty regarding the number of errors than
they should) but POP3 sucks for providing so little status regarding what
happens during a POP3 session. So the defect isn't really the fault of the
POP3-to-HTTP proxy but rather that POP3 provides so little information in
regards to status. For any possible source of problem, -ERR is used for
them all. So if you use these POP3-to-HTTP proxies and sometimes get a
popup telling you to reenter the username and password, it isn't always a
problem with the security permissions on the registry keys, corrupted mail
profiles, and other such problems but rather that the webmail service is
unavailable at the time.
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Ben
I have same problem as well. When I tried to add second
hotmail address, I got error message like "Connection to
the server can not be established". Is that the limits of
Outlook 2002 and are there any work around? Thanks.
hotmail address, I got error message like "Connection to
the server can not be established". Is that the limits of
Outlook 2002 and are there any work around? Thanks.
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Karen
Have you seen any solutions to this yet? I too am having the same
problem!!!
problem!!!