How to leave POP3 field blank

[Ed B.]

There's an SMTP server I'm using with a certain service to send out
email, however I'm not using a POP3 server with this service. Outlook
Express won't let me set up a mail account without having a POP3
server name in that field. Is there a way around this?

Thanks,
Ed B.
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

There's an SMTP server I'm using with a certain service to send out
email, however I'm not using a POP3 server with this service. Outlook
Express won't let me set up a mail account without having a POP3
server name in that field. Is there a way around this?

Put in a bogus one and use "send all" rather than "send/receive all" if you
don't want OE to nag you. Also note for future reference:

This is a group to support Outlook from the Office group of programs.
Outlook Express is a part of Internet Explorer and is a quite different
program, despite its similar name..

You will probably get a faster and more expert answer if you post this to an
Outlook Express news group.

Try posting in one of these newsgroups:
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress for OE 5.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress for OE 5.5x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress for OE 6.x
microsoft.public.internet.outlookexpress.mac for OE for Macintosh

If those groups aren't carried on the news server that's carrying this group
try using msnews.microsoft.com (MS's public news server that's the source
for all the microsoft.public newsgroups).

If you're accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support
Services Community Newsgroups web interface, click
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer
to get to the Internet Explorer groups, then click the plus sign next to
your version of IE to see the link to the Outlook Express group for that
version number.

A good website for information on OE is:
http://www.tomsterdam.com/

Thanks,
Ed B.
buch75@

Note - posting your valid e-mail address in a newsgroup post, or in your
news account settings, is a surefire way to get spam and SWEN and other
viruses sent to you....see http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm

 

[Catsworth]

In a previous post Ed B. muttered the following:

There's an SMTP server I'm using with a certain service to send out
email, however I'm not using a POP3 server with this service. Outlook
Express won't let me set up a mail account without having a POP3
server name in that field. Is there a way around this?

Thanks,
Ed B.
(e-mail address removed)

Can you just put any old junk in there?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Can you just put any old junk in there?

Yes, if you're not going to send messages using that account.