Outlook 2000 Not Sending/Receiving

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Hi,

About a week ago my Outlook 2000 just stopped (Sending/Receiving) working on
Computer-A. I have Outlook 2003 on Computer-B which works fine. Also,
Outlook Express is installed on both Computer-A & Computer-B and it works
fine. I get the following error message on Computer-A running Outlook 2000.
Has anyone experienced this problem yet?

"Some messages couldn't be retrieved from the server. This usually happens
when the connection to the server is lost due to server or network problems.
If the problem persists, contact your administrator."

Has anyone experienced this problem yet? I immediately run Outlook Express
successfully right after this error message appears. Both Outlook 2000 and
Outlook Express are setup with the exact same server information and
passwords.

Thanks, MC
Sunday, Oct 21, 2004 6:32PM.
 
Sunday, 9:04 PM

I may have just narrowed down my problem to a configuration issue but I'm
not sure as to why something like this would just occur when no change was
implemented on my part. Comcast must have changed something on their end
such that an application like Microsoft Outlook 2000 would be affected based
on the configuration.

I currently have Outlook 2000 configured for workgroup and corporate use
even though I'm not connecting to an exchange server. I configure it this
way so that I can select a profile for the different POP3 email accounts I
have. I'm able to setup *.pst and *.pab files for each email account. If I
configure Internet Only Mode, I would have only one *.pst file and I would
have to create account folders within Outlook and manually move each email
from the central Inbox to each of their account folders.

I discovered this because I reconfigured Outlook 2000 to use Internet Only
Mode and then discovered I was able to send/receive again from my main email
account which stopped sending/receiving a week ago or so. When I
reconfigured Outlook 2000 again to use Workgroup or Corporate Email, I could
no longer send/receive from my main email account. This tells me that
Comcast has changed something in their configuration as it pertains to POP3
accounts and how email clients interact with them. I may not be right on the
nose, but I'm sure I'm close. I do know that Outlook 2003 has no problem
with the change Comcast made nor does Outlook Express 6.0 (maybe even
earlier versions because the way they are designed to interact with POP3
mail containers).

So, if anyone has any idea of what might fix my problem with Outlook 2000,
please leave some hints or answers.

Thanks, MC
Sunday, 9:15 PM.
 
I just started having the same problem. I have an XP machine and my husband
has the exact semas set up and is having no problem checking his e-mail.
However, I get the message which pops up immediately after trying to check
e-mail. Have you had any luck fixing this?
 
Hi MC,

Try read this article,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;199990

I am not sure whether this will help. But I faced almost the same problem
with you, yet it hasn't been resolved.

We have Exchange Server 2003 (MS Windows Server 2003), with MS Outlook 2000
in MS Windows 2000 platform, connecting to the Exchange using the POP
protocol. One user experienced this problem, althou at early setup, we found
no issues with that.

Any ideas of what's happening?

Mojo
 
I just started having the same problem. I have an XP machine and my husband
has the exact semas set up and is having no problem checking his e-mail.
However, I get the message which pops up immediately after trying to check
e-mail. Have you had any luck fixing this?
Click to expand...

What version of Outlook do you have? Do you get the exact message that
"Some messages couldn't be retrieved from the server. This usually happens
when the connection to the server is lost due to server or network problems.
If the problem persists, contact your administrator."
Click to expand...

or something else? Do you have anti-virus or anti-spam software that scans
you email?
 
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