password requests

[Julin]

Although I have been using Outlook 2003 for many months,I have had
constant(every few minutes) request for my user name and password.This
started two days ago.Send/receive works but slowly and occasionally fails.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

For what type of mail account?
Which version of Windows are you using?
What did you change 2 days ago?

 

[JohnB]

Have you changed email providers lately?

Normally what you're seeing would indicate the username or password is
failing authentication at the server. And some providers require that the
check box for "My Outgoing Server Requires Authentication" be checked off.

Like the other person said, what's changed?

 

[Julin]

It's a pop3
I am using Vista home premium and I haven't changed anything recently.My
husband is having the same problem.Our settings are still 'freeserve' should
we change them to 'orangehome'?

 

[Matias]

Hey there
I am facing same issue, outlook prompts me enter network password, although
I check for remember password, the one is not remembered, I went trough
solutions offered, like creating a new profile, deleting a key (Protect..) in
the registry, etc. Nothing has worked.
Hope solution is found quickly.
thanks
Matias

 

[Matias]

Dear Julin
Found the solution, after checking all possibilities...
in some how our registry got corrupted.
So the following solution although it takes some time editing worked without
the need to restart the computer.
I had to reset the following:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
Explorer \ User Shell Folders

I added as instructed in the following link:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/usershellfolders.htm

all the following keys (I had only one previously added), I left this one
and included all the missing.

AppData --> %USERPROFILE%\Application Data
Cache --> %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
Cookies --> %USERPROFILE%\Cookies
Desktop --> %USERPROFILE%\Desktop
Favorites --> %USERPROFILE%\Favorites
History --> %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\History
Local AppData --> %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data
Local Settings --> %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings
My Music --> %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Music
My Pictures --> %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Pictures
Nethood --> %USERPROFILE%\NetHood
Personal [My Documents] --> %USERPROFILE%\My Documents
PrintHood --> %USERPROFILE%\PrintHood
Programs --> %USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs
SendTo --> %USERPROFILE%\SendTo
Start Menu --> %USERPROFILE%\Start Menu
Startup --> %USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
Templates --> %USERPROFILE%\Templates


Hope this works for you too.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

This also applies to Outlook 2003;
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/40