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Navyguy
Hello,
I have a Dell Dimension 8200 with XP, SP2, IE7, using Live Messenger
and also have Live Mail installed but not working totally correct
although Live Mail seems to be ok.
The issue is as follows:
When clicking Start>Control Panel>Other Control Panel
Options>Mail>Mail Setup-Outlook
It gives the following:
Email accounts
Data files
Profiles
When I check on email accounts it gives this:
Email
Add new account (checked)
View or change existing accounts
I clicked next and it gave me another screen listing which type of
server
my email account will work with.
Microsoft exchange server
Pop3
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http
additional server types
I selected http because it said : Connect to http e-mail server such
as
Hotmail to download e-mail and synchronize mailbox folders.
I then clicked next
It gave me an error message that says: This feature requires the
outlook express
Component of Microsoft internet explorer version 5.0 or newer. Would
you like to download a newer vesion of Internet explorer now?
I have IE7, nevertheless I tried this and it came back with no
updates
found.
I then went back and selected view or change existing email accounts
and clicked next
It had my old isp provider email account there which I haven't used
in
over 3 years
so I deleted it, and now only shows the Add button highlighted, all
others are grayed out. When I clicked Add, it takes me to the screen
to select server type again:
Microsoft exchange server
Pop3
Imap
http
additional server types
I selected http once again and clicked next and it gave me the same
error as before.
I then backed out to the beginning and checked under data files:
It had one entry named Personal Folders, I opened it and it showed an
icon which said:
Outlook.pst office data file - when I clicked the icon to open it to
see what it was it said:
These files are used by the operating system and by various programs.
Editing or modifying them could damage your system. So I closed it.
I then backed out to the beginning again and under Profile clicked
Show Profiles
It opened a General screen and says the following profiles are set up
on this computer:
below that it has Outlook highlighted in blue and below that it has
Add, Remove, Properties, Copy, and below that it has
Prompt for a profile to be use
Always use this profile (checked)
then below this is a window with a drop down arrow but the only
selection available is
Outlook. If I click on prompt for a profile to be used then this area
becomes grayed out.
I'm trying to set up Hotmail in my Mail Set-up program under 'Other
Control Panel Options' I have Hotmail already set up in Windows Live
Messenger. The only reason I posted this was because I saw my old
ISP Email sitting in Mail Setup when it shouldn't have been there
because
I haven't used it in over 3 years and thought that it might be
conflicting with
my Hotmail and causing some of the issues I've been having.
Thank
you,
Robert
I have a Dell Dimension 8200 with XP, SP2, IE7, using Live Messenger
and also have Live Mail installed but not working totally correct
although Live Mail seems to be ok.
The issue is as follows:
When clicking Start>Control Panel>Other Control Panel
Options>Mail>Mail Setup-Outlook
It gives the following:
Email accounts
Data files
Profiles
When I check on email accounts it gives this:
Add new account (checked)
View or change existing accounts
I clicked next and it gave me another screen listing which type of
server
my email account will work with.
Microsoft exchange server
Pop3
Imap
http
additional server types
I selected http because it said : Connect to http e-mail server such
as
Hotmail to download e-mail and synchronize mailbox folders.
I then clicked next
It gave me an error message that says: This feature requires the
outlook express
Component of Microsoft internet explorer version 5.0 or newer. Would
you like to download a newer vesion of Internet explorer now?
I have IE7, nevertheless I tried this and it came back with no
updates
found.
I then went back and selected view or change existing email accounts
and clicked next
It had my old isp provider email account there which I haven't used
in
over 3 years
so I deleted it, and now only shows the Add button highlighted, all
others are grayed out. When I clicked Add, it takes me to the screen
to select server type again:
Microsoft exchange server
Pop3
Imap
http
additional server types
I selected http once again and clicked next and it gave me the same
error as before.
I then backed out to the beginning and checked under data files:
It had one entry named Personal Folders, I opened it and it showed an
icon which said:
Outlook.pst office data file - when I clicked the icon to open it to
see what it was it said:
These files are used by the operating system and by various programs.
Editing or modifying them could damage your system. So I closed it.
I then backed out to the beginning again and under Profile clicked
Show Profiles
It opened a General screen and says the following profiles are set up
on this computer:
below that it has Outlook highlighted in blue and below that it has
Add, Remove, Properties, Copy, and below that it has
Prompt for a profile to be use
Always use this profile (checked)
then below this is a window with a drop down arrow but the only
selection available is
Outlook. If I click on prompt for a profile to be used then this area
becomes grayed out.
I'm trying to set up Hotmail in my Mail Set-up program under 'Other
Control Panel Options' I have Hotmail already set up in Windows Live
Messenger. The only reason I posted this was because I saw my old
ISP Email sitting in Mail Setup when it shouldn't have been there
because
I haven't used it in over 3 years and thought that it might be
conflicting with
my Hotmail and causing some of the issues I've been having.
Thank
you,
Robert