MS Outlook. "A connection to the server..." error msg.

[Guest]

Every tiome I open MS Outlook I get:
A connection to the server could not be established.
http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp is now in offline mode.

Likewise when I click on an email icon on a webpage the Outlook opens the
email - and not the OL Express which should be the default email program.
Also I'm not able to send emails from my Outlook 2002.

How can I fix this?

 

[S.Sengupta]

You receive an "A connection to the server could not be established"
error message and Outlook 2003 stops responding when you use Cached
Exchange Mode with an IMAP account
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;822508&spid=2520&sid=216

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Every tiome I open MS Outlook I get:
A connection to the server could not be established.
http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp is now in offline mode.

Likewise when I click on an email icon on a webpage the Outlook opens the
email - and not the OL Express which should be the default email program.
Also I'm not able to send emails from my Outlook 2002.

How can I fix this?

Probably by posting in the correct newsgroup - Outlook Express?

 

[Guest]

Hi S.Sengupta, unfortunately your link referrs to Outlook Express 2003 - my
version is 2002.

 

[Guest]

Probably by posting in the correct newsgroup - Outlook Express?

The problem is with my Outlook 2002 not Outlook Express.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

The problem is with my Outlook 2002 not Outlook Express.

May be - but here is what the OP wrote: "and not the OL Express
which should be the default email program". Regardless of this,
most Outlook / Outlook Express experts hang out in one of the
Outlook newsgroups.

 

[Guest]

OK Will go there then.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

Every tiome I open MS Outlook I get:
A connection to the server could not be established.
http://services.msn.com/svcs/hotmail/httpmail.asp is now in offline mode.

Likewise when I click on an email icon on a webpage the Outlook opens the
email - and not the OL Express which should be the default email program.
Also I'm not able to send emails from my Outlook 2002.

How can I fix this?

From http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/defaultl.htm

Go to Start | Run and type this command, with the double quotes and spaces:

"C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe" /reg

and then make sure that OE is selected as the default mail program in both
IE and OE.

If that isn't enough, see this article:
"Send To" and E-mail Links Do Not Work Using Outlook Express as Default:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306098

You might also want to try this:

Restores OE to the E-mail clients list in Internet Options
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/oe_client.htm

To set Outlook as the default mail client,- Go to Start, Run - Type in the
following with quotation marks and press OK
"C:\program files\microsoft office\office\outlook.exe" /checkclient
For more information on Outlook see:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/defaultmailer.htm